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BIOGRAPHICAL   RECORD 


OF    THE 


CLASS    OF    1874 


IN 


YALE    COLLEGE 


PART    FOURTH 
1874    -    1909 


NEW    HAVEN 

The   Tuttle,  Morehouse  &  Taylor  Co. 

1912 


V 


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PREFACE 

Dear  Classmates: 

The  death  of  George  Dickerman  saddened  our  last 
meeting,  and  put  upon  his  successor  a  task  for  which 
he  has  little  aptitude  or  time.  These  drawbacks  have 
been  enhanced  by  the  fact  that  it  has  been  hard  in  not 
a  few  cases  to  secure  from  members  of  the  Class  prompt 
replies  to  the  biographical  questions,  and  harder  still 
to  obtain  the  photographs  needed  to  illustrate  the  book. 
Many  of  the  Class  seem  to  have  been  too  modest  to 
have  themselves  photographed  in  recent  years.  For- 
tunately the  Secretary  possesses  an  almost  complete 
set  of  the  Class  photographs,  so  that  each  member's 
face,  either  past  or  present,  will  look  out  from  the  pages 
of  the  record  and  greet  each  living  member  of  the  Class 
even  if  he  never  attends  a  Class  meeting.  It  will  be 
noticed  that  the  book  aims  to  give  a  complete  account 
of  the  life  of  every  member  since  graduation,  and  is, 
therefore,  not  merely  a  supplement  to  previous  issues. 

The  Secretary  desires  to  express  his  thanks  to  all 
who  have  assisted  him  by  sending  contributions  or 
photographs,  and  especially  to  his  fellow  members  of 
the  committee,  George  Gunn  and  Harry  Hatch,  and 
to  Dave  Kennedy,  who  very  kindly  made  the  final 
revision  of  the  copy  for  the  press.  He  acknowledges 
gratefully  the  valuable  aid  given  by  the  Class  Secre- 
taries Bureau,  without  which  the  gathering  of  the 
material  would  have  involved  greater  delay  and  less 
accuracy.  He  is  also  indebted  to  the  Bureau  for  the 
permission  to  use  without  charge  a  number  of  plates 
of  old  college  buildings  prepared  for  the  use  of  other 
classes. 

Henry  W.  Farnam. 


250974 


PREVIOUS    PUBLICATIONS 
BY   THE    CLASS 

Biographical  Record  with  Report  of  the  Triennial  Meet- 
ing of  the  Class  of  1874  in  Yale  College.  Compiled  for  the 
Class  by  George  L.  Dickerman,  Class  Secretary.  130  pages. 
New  Haven:    Tuttle,  Morehouse  &  Taylor,  Printers,  1879. 

Biographical  Record  with  Report  of  Sexennial  and  Decen- 
nial Meetings  of  the  Class  of  1874  in  Yale  College.  Part 
Second.  Compiled  for  the  Class  by  George  L.  Dickerman,  Class 
Secretary.  68  pages.  New  Haven:  Hoggson  &  Robinson. 
Printers,  1889. 

Biographical  Record  with  Report  of  Quindecennial  and 
Vicennial  Meetings  of  the  Class  of  1874  in  Yale  College. 
Part  Third.  Compiled  for  the  Class  by  George  L.  Dickerman, 
Class  Secretary.  72  pages.  New  Haven:  The  Price,  Lee  & 
Adkins  Co.,  Printers,  1899. 

Copies  of  any  of  these  volumes  may  be  had  on  application 
(enclosing  12  cents  per  volume  for  postage)  to  the  Class  Secretary, 

Henry  W.  Farnam, 

43  Hillhouse  Ave., 

New  Haven,  Conn. 


CONTENTS 

The  Old  Brick  Row  and  the  Fence      .       Frontispiece 


PAGE 


Reunions,  illustrated  by  groups  and  scenes  .        xi 

Recounting  the  meetings  held  in  1877,  1880, 
1884,  1889,  1894,  1899,  1904  and  1909. 

Biographies,  illustrated  with  photographs  of  the 
members  at  graduation  and  in  later  life 
Graduates     .......         1 

Non-Graduates 252 

Statistical  Summaries  for  Graduates  only 

Marriages  and  Births   .....  265 

Yale  Sons 269 

Occupations 270 

Geographical  Distribution  of  Living  Gradu- 
ates           271 

Roll  of  the  Class 272 


REUNIONS 


REUNIONS 

Triennial 

Sixty-nine  graduate  members  of  the  Class,  and  four 
non-graduates,  seventy-three  in  all,  turned  out  to 
celebrate  our  Triennial.  Of  these,  sixty-nine  took  part 
in  the  supper,  held  June  26,  1877,  after  which  the  cup 
was  presented  to  the  son  of  Alec.  Nevin  with  elaborate 
and  appropriate  ceremonies.  A  feature  which  was  a 
surprise  to  most  of  the  Class  was  introduced  by  Bin- 
inger,  who,  after  the  cup  had  been  received  b}^  Baby 
Nevin,  arose  and  in  a  few  characteristic  words  presented 
a  consolation  cup  to  Arthur  Dodge's  small  baby,  who 
had  lost  in  the  race  by  only  three  days. 

The  proceedings  in  full,  with  the  speeches  of  Joy, 
Bininger,  Witherbee,  E.  D.  Bobbins,  Olmsted, 
Zacher,  Benton,  Stapler,  Walker,  Gunn,  Jenkins, 
Howe,  Whittemore,  Townsend,  Kennedy,  Dennis, 
Wickes,  and  Beaver,  together  with  many  of  the  songs 
and  poems,  are  printed  in  the  report  of  the  meeting 
issued  in  1879. 

Sexennial 

The  Sexennial  was  held  June  30,  1880,  but  only 
about  thirty  turned  up  at  the  Class  meeting.  The 
dinner  which  was  served  by  Redcliffe  at  the  Athenaeum 
was  presided  over  by  Stapler. 

Decennial 

The  Decennial  meeting  was  held  June  24,  1884,  the 
supper  being  served  by  Delmonico  at  the  Athenaeum, 
and  forty  being  present.     Waterman  presided. 


QUARTER  CENTENARY  xiii 

QUINDECENNIAL 

The  Quindecennial  Class  meeting  was  held  in  South 
College,  June  25,  1889.  The  Class  attended  the 
Harvard  game,  and  had  the  pleasure  of  seeing  Yale 
win  by  a  score  of  8  to  4.  The  dinner  was  served  at 
8.30  p.  m.  in  Music  Hall  on  Church  Street.  Jenkins 
presided.  Thirty-six  were  present,  and  the  evening 
was  enlivened  by  a  visit  from  the  Class  of  '86,  which 
came  in  a  body,  as  well  as  by  delegations  from  the 
classes  of  '64  and  '69.  After  breaking  up  we  returned 
the  visit  of  the  Class  of  '69  in  Brothers'  Hall,  and  the 
affair  was  generally  pronounced  to  be  very  successful. 

Vicennial 

The  Vicennial  meeting  was  held  June  26,  1894.  The 
Class  went  in  a  body  to  the  Yale-Harvard  game  and 
contributed  its  share  of  noise  towards  securing  a  victory 
for  Yale.  After  the  game  there  was  a  reception  for 
the  Class  together  with  its  wives  and  daughters  at 
Farnam's,  43  Hillhouse  Avenue,  and  the  supper  was 
held  at  the  New  Haven  House.  Sixty  members  were 
present,  the  largest  number  on  record  since  Triennial. 
One  of  the  pleasant  features  was  the  movement  inaugu- 
rated to  secure  for  Harry  Robbins,  who  unfortunately 
was  obliged  to  leave  college  shortly  before  the  Class 
graduated,  the  dignity  and  emoluments  of  the  degree 
of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  A  petition  to  this  effect  was 
presented  to  the  Corporation,  and  Harry  Robbins  is 
now  enrolled  with  the  Class. 

Quarter  Centenary 

Our  Twenty-fifth  anniversary  was  celebrated  June 
27,  1899.     At  the  Class  meeting,  which  was  held  as 


ALUMNI    HALL 


HAMILTON    PARK    GATE 


TRICENXIAL  xv 


usual  in  the  forenoon  in  E  1  Osborn  Hall,  the  old 
songs  were  sung,  and  the  old  jokes  warmed  up.  In 
the  afternoon  we  went  in  a  body  to  the  Yale-Harvard 
game,  but  our  enthusiasm  was  unable  to  turn  the  scale 
in  our  favor,  for  Harvard  won  by  a  score  of  4  to  3. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  L.  Dickerman  received  the 
Class  hospitably  in  the  afternoon  at  their  house,  320 
Temple  Street,  and  the  dinner  was  held  at  8  p.  m.  at 
the  Xew  Haven  House,  with  the  following  men 
present: — Benedict,  Blodgett,  Bowers,  Bristol,  G. 
S.  Brown,  S.  C.  Bushnell,  Campbell,  Clark,  Curtis, 
Dickerman,  Dimock,  Dunning,  Farnam,  Fox,  Frissell, 
Gunn,  Harrison,  Henderson,  Harris,  Heron,  Howe, 
James,  Joy,  R.  W.  Kelley,  Kennedy,  Leal,  Marsh, 
Mendell,  Minor,  Morris,  Munroe,  Parkin,  Reid,  E.  D. 
Bobbins,  H.  S.  Robbins,  Sherman,  Stapler,  Teale, 
Thacher,  Van  Horn,  Walden,  Walker,  Washburn, 
Waterman,  Wilcox,  Witherbee,  Wood,  Zacher. 

Tricennial 

Our  Thirtieth  anniversary  took  place  June  28, 
1904.  A  notable  event  was  the  address  in  medicine 
delivered  in  the  afternoon  of  June  27  in  College 
Street  Hall  by  Halsted,  upon  whom  the  degree  of 
LL.D.  was  conferred  on  Commencement  Day.  Our 
Class  meeting  was  held  at  noon  in  B  1  Osborn  Hall 
and  in  the  afternoon  we  attended  the  Yale-Harvard 
baseball  game  together.  The  dinner  was  held  at  the 
Momauguin  at  7.30.  John  Brady  acted  as  toastmaster, 
and  many  speeches  were  made  by  the  members  of  the 
Class.  The  following  were  present: — Adams,  Blod- 
gett, Bradstreet,  Brady,  G.  S.  Brown,  S.  C.  Bushnell, 


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Curtis,  Cuyler,  Dickerman,  Dimock,  Farnam,  Fox, 
Frissell,  Gunn,  Halsted,  Hatch,  Henderson,  Howe, 
Ingersoll,  James,  Joy,  R.  W.  Kelley,  William  Kelly, 
Kennedy,  Lyon,  Minor,  Morris,  Munroe,  E.  D.  Rob- 
bins,  H.  S.  Robbins,  Sherman,  Starkweather,  Stokes, 
Tenney,  Townsend,  Walden,  Wilcox,  Witherbee, 
Wood,  Zacher,  Clark,  Dunham,  Harris. 

QUINTRICENNIAL 

The  Thirty-fifth  anniversary  began  with  an  unusual 
feature.  Aldis  had  shown  his  interest  in  golf  and  in 
the  Class  by  proposing  to  give  a  cup  which  was  to  be 
competed  for  by  members  of  the  Class  at  the  time  of 
the  reunion.  Aldis  himself  was  unfortunately  at  the 
last  moment  prevented  by  a  sprained  ankle  from 
coming,  but  the  tournament  took  place  on  Monday, 
June  28,  at  the  Xew  Haven  Country  Club  under  the 
auspices  of  George  Gunn  and  was  won  by  Henderson. 
The  regular  Class  meeting  was  held  Tuesday  morn- 
ing, June  29,  in  B  1  Osborn  Hall.  The  minutes  of 
the  meeting  are  as  follows: 

The  meeting  was  called  to  order  by  George  M.  Gunn,  who 
was  thereupon  unanimously  elected  chairman.  Henry  W.  Farnam 
acted  as  secretary.  The  treasurer's  report  for  the  meeting  of  1904 
was  read  by  Henry  W.  Farnam,  who  also  made  a  brief  statement 
regarding  the  deaths  which  had  occurred  in  the  Class  within  the 
past  five  years  and  explained  the  program  of  the  present  meeting. 
David  A.  Kennedy  then  addressed  the  Class  as  follows: 

Fellow  Classmates: 

On  that  beautiful  Sunday  of  May  30,  Decoration  Day,  as 
the  sun  was  climbing  down  the  western  slope  and  the  twilight 
was  drawing  nigh,  our  beloved  friend  and  classmate,  George 
L.  Dickerman,  passed  over  the  bar.  And  now  it  is  my  sad 
duty  to  bear  a  momentary  tribute  to  one  whose  friendship  I 


BATTELL    CHAPEL 


CAMPUS    FROM    FENCE 


QUINTRICENNIAL  xix 

value  as  one  of  the  choice  things  of  my  life,  a  friendship 
formed  forty-one  years  ago  in  the  old  Hopkins  Grammar 
School  and  continuing  throughout  college  and  mature  life 
even  unto  the  parting  and  the  consignment  of  his  human 
frame  to  the  ground.  And  ever  there  float  through  my  soul 
the  words   of  Milton: 

But  oh!    the  heavy  change,  now  thou  art  gone, 
Now  thou  art  gone,  and  never  must  return. 

You,  who  have  seen  him  from  time  to  time  as  the  Secretary 
of  our  Class,  knew  the  integrity  of  his  character,  the  fidelity 
of  his  trust,  the  loyalty  with  which  he  followed  our  move- 
ments, and  the  exceeding  care  he  showed  in  making  arrange- 
ments for  our  gathering.  If  you  make  inquiries  in  this 
community  you  will  find  that  his  seemingly  uneventful  life 
was  full  of  interests  to  which  he  closely  devoted  himself.  On 
acccount  of  his  well  known  probity  many  a  trust  of  the 
property  of  widows  and  orphans  was  placed  in  his  hands. 
And  in  the  faithful,  conservative  care  of  these  interests  he 
won  from  his  circle  of  business  and  professional  acquaintances 
a  high  regard,  an  implicit  confidence,  a  thorough  belief  that 
he  could  be  depended  upon. 

Such  was  the  character  of  our  friend  and  such  the  reputa- 
tion he  bore,  both  worthy  of  the  utmost  respect  and  admiration 
from  us,  his  friends  and  classmates. 

It  devolves  upon  me,  therefore,  to  present  this  resolution: 

Resolved:  that  we,  the  Class  of  1874,  assembled  at  our 
thirty-fifth  reunion,  wish  to  pay  tribute  to  the  fidelity,  the 
careful  accuracy,  the  unswerving  interest,  that  George  L. 
Dickerman  ever  manifested  in  his  service  through  all  these 
years  as  our  Class  Secretary;  that  we  deeply  mourn  the  loss 
of  our  friend;  that  we  extend  our  heartfelt  sympathy  to  his 
wife  and  sisters  at  this  time  of  their  bereavement  and  grief 
and  assure  them  that  the  members  of  this  Class  will  always 
retain  feelings  of  affectionate  remembrance  for  him  who  was 
so  dear  to  them  and  so  close  in  friendship  to  us. 

Voted:  that  the  Secretary  be  instructed  to  forward  a 
copy  of  these  resolutions  to  Mrs.  Dickerman  and  that  they 
be  published  in  the   Yale  Alumni  Weekly. 


QUINTRICENNIAL  xxi 

The  chairman  stated  that  the  next  business  was  the  election  of  the 
Class  Secretary.  Henry  W.  Farnam  was  nominated,  but  as  he 
declined  to  serve,  and  a  general  proposition  with  regard  to  the 
organization  of  the  Class  was  suggested  by  Ansley  Wilcox,  the 
nomination  was  withdrawn.  After  some  discussion,  it  was  voted, 
on  motion  of  Ansley  Wilcox,  that  we  proceed  to  organize  the  Class 
by  the  election  of  a  president,  a  secretary-treasurer,  and  an 
executive  committee  of  three,  consisting  of  the  officers  and  one  other 
member,  with  power  to  add  to  their  number. 

Upon  motion  the  following  were  elected  members  of  the  execu- 
tive committee:  George  M.  Gunn,  president;  Henry  W.  Farnam, 
secretary-treasurer;    H.   P.   Hatch. 

After  a  discussion  regarding  the  desirability  of  issuing  a  large 
and  full  report  of  the  Class,  it  was  voted  to  refer  the  matter 
to  the  executive  committee. 

The  meeting  adjourned  at  12.15. 

After  the  meeting  the  Class  met  on  the  steps  of  the 
old  library  to  be  photographed.  In  the  afternoon  the 
members  attended  the  Yale-Harvard  baseball  game 
as  usual,  two  of  Smedley's  electric  trucks  being  used  for 
the  trip,  and  had  the  pleasure  of  seeing  Yale  win  by 
a  score  of  4  to  0.  This  trip  presented  dangers  of  an 
unusual  character  for  which  even  experienced  auto- 
mobilists  were  quite  unprepared.  As  Waterman 
remarked,  on  the  return,  we  were  in  constant  danger 
of  a  rear  end  collision;  but  everthing  that  left  the 
field  after  us  succeeded  in  passing  us  in  safety,  and  we 
had  power  enough,  not  only  to  get  to  the  center  of 
the  town,  but  even  to  climb  half  way  up  the  steep 
declivity  of  Hillhouse  Avenue.  The  Class  then 
marched  with  its  banner  to  President  Hadley's  house 
and  returned  to  the  house  of  the  Secretary,  43  Hill- 
house  Avenue,  for  an  informal  reception  at  which  many 
of  the  wives  and  some  of  the  daughters  were  present. 


xxii  REUNIONS 


The  dinner  was  held  at  the  New  Haven  House,  at 
8  p.  m.,  George  M.  Gunn  presiding.  Speeches  were 
made  by  Bushnell,  Bouchet,  Farnam,  Fox,  Harris, 
Henderson,  Morris,  Parkin,  E.  D.  Bobbins,  H.  S. 
Bobbins,  Wilcox,  and  Wood.  The  Class  Poet,  Beid, 
read  the  following  poem: 

"O  days,  so  fraught  with  glad  fruition, 
O  years,  the  happiest  we  shall  live." 

{Seventy-Fours   Class  Poem.) 

So  thought  we  in  those  other  days 

When  careless   free  life's  current  ran, 

When  we  knew  little  of  the  maze 

Which  tests  the  worth  of  every  man. 

We  pictured  then  a  thornless  way 

Leading  to  summits  high  and  fair. 
But  thorns   have  thronged  in   stout  array, 

And  heights  have  faded  into  air. 

Hard  roads  we've  marched,  fierce  trials  borne, 
And  sometimes  mourned  a  project  lost, — 

Perchance  have  led  a  hope  forlorn, 
And   failed,  heart-heavy  with  the  cost. 

Yet  through  the  years  that  now  are  gone 
The  joys   of  victory  we  have  known, 

The  crises  we  have  fallen  upon 

Have  never  our  real  strength  o'erthrown. 

For  something  we  have  been  or  done 

May  generations  yet  inspire, — 
A  battle  fought,  a  victory  won 

With  weapons   tempered  in  our   fire. 

We're  near  the  sunset,  it  is  true, 

More  years  are  gone  than  yet  shall  be; 

But  there  is  something  still  to  do, 
That  Seventy-Four  in  memory 


QUINTRICENXIAL  xxiii 

May  long  be  held,  and  through  the  years 
The  influence  of  her  generous  might 

Shall  thrill  the   pulses,  calm  the   fears 
Of  men  who  live  to  do  the  right. 

For  no  life  ceases  when  its  day 

Is  ended  by  the  falling  shade, 
Even  though  it  seems  to  pass  away, 

As  flowers  that  droop  when  day  beams  fade. 

Our  numbers  lessen,  but  the  tone 

We've  given  to  our  surroundings  here 

Has   power  beyond  the  narrow  zone 
Which  circumscribes  this  life's  career. 

So  pushing  on  with  courage  high, 
As  when  we  left  these  classic  halls, 

Our  energy  can  never  die, 

Whatever  our  brief  life  befalls. 

And  when  we  here  shall  meet  no  more, 

Life's  work  and  victories  all  done, 
We  leave   behind  a   gallant  store 

Of  vigor  that  has  but  begun 
To  stir  the  world  to  larger  things, 

To  rouse  in  men  a  purpose  high 
For   deeds,   whose  worth  a  poet  sings, 

And  ruthless  time  shall  e'er  defy. 

The  following,  43  in  all,  were  present:  Blodgett, 
Bouchet,  Bowers,  Bradstreet,  Brady,  Bristol,  G.  S. 
Brown,  S.  C.  Bushnell,  Campbell,  Curtis,  Cuyler, 
Dimock,  Farnam,  Fox,  Frissell,  Gunn,  Harrison, 
Hatch,  Henderson,  Heron,  Howe,  Harris,  R.  W. 
Kelley,  William  Kelly,  Kennedy,  Leland,  Minor, 
Morris,  Parkin,  Reid,  E.  D.  Robbins,  H.  S.  Robbins, 
Sayles,  Sellers,  Sherman,  Tenney,  Thacher,  Walden, 
Walker,  Waterman,  Wilcox,  Wood,  Zacher. 

The  meeting  broke  up  at  about  1.30.  The  Class 
then  visited  the  Class  Ivy. 


BIOGRAPHIES 


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BIOGRAPHIES  OF  GRADUATES 


Thomas  Means  Adams 

President  of  the  Norton  Iron  Works,  Ashland,  Ky. 
Address — Ashland,  Ky. 

Born  February   15,   1854,  in  Buena  Vista   Furnace,   Ky. 

He  prepared  at  Marietta  College  and  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Mass. 

He  was  married  in  September,  1892,  in  West  Newton,  Mass., 
to  Miss  Emma  Louise  Sheldon,  Wellesley  '91  (died  April  5,  1897), 
daughter  of  William  E.  Sheldon  of  West  Newton,  an  educator,  at 
one  time  president  of  the  National  Educational  Association.  Two 
daughters  were  born  to  them: 

Mary  Means,  born  July  19,  1893. 

Louise  Sheldon,  born  April  5,  1897. 

Adams  spent  one  year  in  Europe,  five  months  of 
which  he  passed  in  Hanover  pursuing  the  study  of 
German.  Upon  his  return  he  became  engaged  in  the 
banking  business  at  Ironton,  Ohio.  In  the  summer  of 
1882  he  began  selling  general  merchandise  in  Montana, 
hauling  his  goods  in  wagons  one  hundred  miles  from 
the  nearest  railroad  station,  prior  to  the  completion  of 
the  Northern  Pacific  Railway.  His  customers  were 
cowboys,  ranchmen,  and  Indians.  After  three  years 
in  Montana,  during  which  time  Adams  says  he 
"speedily  amassed  a  fortune,  not  exactly  in  money, 
but  in  health,"  he  located  in  Ashland,  Ky.,  where  he 
became  engaged  in  ice  manufacture  and  pig-iron 
speculation.     Concerning  his  life  he  writes: 

"After  graduation  I  spent  one  year  abroad.  Upon 
my  return  home  it  seemed  best  that  I  should  enter 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


THOMAS    MEANS    ADAMS 


upon  some  sort  of  a  post-graduate  course,  as  it  were, 
and  I  accordingly  started  in  without  any  loss  of  time 
to  grapple  with  the  rudiments  of  business.  The  lapse 
of  four  and  twenty  years  found  me  still  wrestling  with 
said  rudiments.  My  tuition  during  this  period  was 
something  extreme.  To  meet  same  it  was  necessary 
to  draw  heavily  on  the  reserves,  and  to  work  vacations. 
As  may  be  conjectured  from  the  foregoing  during  the 
above  mentioned  period  my  only  success  was  in  evading 
success.  Encouraged  by  the  fact  that  I  had  led  my 
class  at  Yale  (alphabetically) ,  I  struggled  on.  Within 
the  last  ten  years  close  application  to  my  work  has 
been  rewarded  with  prizes  that  will  suffice  to  wipe 
out  all  old  scores,  and  provide  a  fund  for  the  further 
prosecution  of  my  studies. 


GRADUATES  3 


"As  a  part  of  this  post-graduate  course,  I  have  suc- 
cessfully administered  the  estate  of  my  grandfather, 
according  to  the  true  intent  and  purpose  of  his  will, 
without  any  outside  aid,  save  that  furnished  by  a  co- 
administrator, a  full  complement  of  lawyers,  one  Judge 
of  a  Federal  District  Court,  three  Judges  of  a  Federal 
Court  of  Appeals  and  nine  Justices  of  the  U.  S. 
Supreme  Court.  The  lawsuit  was  styled  "The  Means 
Case,"  and  not  inaptly  so,  as  it  was  the  means  of  sup- 
port of  half  a  dozen  lawyers  for  nine  years.  The 
underlying  principle  of  the  higher  court  decision  was 
in  accord  with  that  of  present-day  legislation,  viz:  A 
man  has  a  perfect  right  to  die  rich  as  long  as  he  does 
not  enrich  his  heirs  by  so  doing. 

"As  a  part  of  this  post-graduate  course,  I  also 
cleared  land  in  Florida  for  pineapple  culture,  mer- 
chandised in  Montana,  operated  a  machine  shop  and 
foundry  in  Ohio,  ice  factories  in  Kentucky  and  Penn- 
sylvania, and  am  now  the  president,  manager  and  con- 
trolling shareholder  of  the  Norton  Iron  Works  of 
Ashland,  Ky.,  a  plant  producing  wire,  wire  nails,  cut 
nails  and  pig-iron." 

Owen  Franklin  Aldis 

Lawyer,  retired 

Residences — 120  Bellevue  Place,  Chicago,  111. 

1347  Connecticut  Avenue,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Aldis  Cottage,  York  Harbor,  Maine 

Business  address —  Care  Aldis  &  Company,  247  Monadnock  Build- 
ing, Chicago,  111. 

Born  June  6,  1852,  in  St.  Albans,  Vt.,  the  son  of  Asa  O.  and 
Mary  T.  Aldis. 


BIOGRAPHIES 


OWEN    FRANKLIN    ALDIi 


He  prepared  "nowhere  in  particular  and  everywhere  in  general" 
and  entered  the  Class  in  September.,  1871. 

He  was  married  December  18,  1878,  in  Chicago,  111.,  to  Miss 
Leila  R.  Houghteling,  who  died  in  1885.  A  son,  Owen,  born  in 
1880,  is  also  dead. 

After  graduation  Aldis  studied  law  during  one  win- 
ter in  Washington,  D.  C,  and  during  one  summer  in 
Vermont,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Chicago  Bar  in 
September,  1876.  He  has  now  retired  from  active 
business.     He  writes: 

"Lawyer  for  ten  years  in  Chicago,  111.,  then  real 
estate.  Xo  political  offices.  I  have  spent  most  of  the 
last  five  or  six  years  in  travel  in  various  parts  of  the 
world.  Xo  special  pursuits  except  sport  and  reading. 
Have  been  connected  with  the  World's  Fair,  Chicago; 


GRADUATES 


the  Field  Columbian  Museum,  Chicago ;  and  have  been 
trustee,  director,  and  so  forth  of  other  institutions." 

He  belongs  to  the  Chicago,  University,  Caxton, 
Cliff  Dwellers  and  Chicago  Literary  clubs ;  the  Metro- 
politan Club  of  Washington,  D.  C;  the  Century, 
University,  and  Grolier  clubs  of  New  York,  and  various 
country  clubs  in  Chicago,  Washington  and  at  the  sea 
shore. 


William  Lathrop  Bailey 

Nevada,  Mo. 

Born    November    27,    1854,    in    Bridgeport,    Conn.,    the    son    of 
George  and  Mary  L.   Bailey. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Wilton,  Conn. 


After  graduation  Bai- 
ley went  abroad  and, 
after  several  months  of 
travel,  studied  at  the 
Polytechnic  School  in 
Stuttgart,  and  later  at 
the  University  of  Hei- 
delberg. At  the  latter 
place  he  devoted  his  at- 
tention to  the  study  of 
medicine  with  the  idea 
of  pursuing  that  profes- 
sion upon  his  return  to 
America.  The  Secretary 
has  been  unable  to  elicit 
any  reply  to  his  many 
requests  for  information 
and  nothing  further  is 
known  about  his  career. 


WILLIAM    LATHROP    BAILEY 


BIOGRAPHIES 


Henry  Baldwin 


Farmer 


HENRY    BALDWIN 


Address — South     Canterbury. 
Conn. 

Born  July  24,  1850,  in  Cen- 
tral Village,  Conn.,  the  son  of 
Elijah  and  Sarah  Mathewson 
Baldwin. 

He  prepared  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Exeter,  N.  H.,  was 
a  member  of  the  last  advanced 
class,  and  entered  the  Class  of 
'74<  in  September,  1871. 

He  is  unmarried. 

Since  graduation  Bald- 
win has  been  a  farmer  in 
South  Canterbury,  Conn. 
He  is  a  member  of  the 
American  Free  Trade 
League. 


Address- 


Pearce  Barnes 

Lawyer 
1  West  Fifty-fourth  Street,  New  York  City 


Born  in  Mount  Sterling,  Montgomery  County,  Ky.,  the  son  of 
Thomas  C.  Barnes  and  Emily  Amelia   (Howard)  Barnes. 
He  prepared  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
He  is  unmarried. 

Concerning  his  life  since  leaving  Yale,  Barnes  writes : 
"Immediately  after  graduation  I  went  to  the  Colum- 
bia Law  School  in  the  city  of  New  York,  where  I  was 
graduated  with  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1876.     I  com- 
menced to  practice  law  in  that  city  in  the  fall  of  1877, 


GRADUATES 


PEARCE    BARNES 


and  have  been  located  there  ever  since,  except  for  an 
interval  of  about  seven  years  which  was  caused  by  ill 
health  and  which  ended  some  four  years  ago.  I  am 
now  in  good  shape. 

"I  am  a  member  of  the  University  Club  and  of  the 
Association  of  the  Bar  in  New  York  City.  I  have 
been  abroad  three  times,  visiting  England,  Ireland, 
Wales,  Germany,  Holland,  Belgium,  Switzerland,  and 
France.  I  have  also  been  in  Quebec,  Ontario,  Mani- 
toba, Assiniboia,  and  Saskatchewan,  Canada.  My 
favorite  and  only  recreations  and  sports  are  hunting 
and  fishing,  and  in  indulging  them  I  have  visited 
twenty-six  states  in  the  Union.  I  hold  the  memory  of 
my  classmates,  the  living  and  the  dead,  in  deep  affec- 
tion. I  see  much  too  little  of  them — I  cannot  see  too 
much." 


BIOGRAPHIES 


George  Lincoln  Beaver 

Horticulturist,  formerly  Lawyer 
Address — 661  Gilman  Street,  Palo  Alto,  Calif. 

Born  February  10,  1854,  in  San  Francisco,  Calif.,  the  son  of 
George  W.  and  Mary  M.  Beaver. 

He  prepared  at  the  San  Francisco  Latin  High  School  and  at 
University  Mound  College,  and  also  spent  three  months  as  a 
Freshman  in  the  California  State  University. 

He  was  married  on  December  14,  1892,  near  Campbell,  Santa 
Clara  County,  Calif.,  to  Miss  Ella  Laurette  Lovell,  formerly  a 
student  at  the  University  of  the  Pacific,  daughter  of  Ira  Joseph 
Lovell  (now  deceased),  a  pioneer  farmer  and  fruit  grower  of  the 
Santa  Clara  valley.  They  have  one  son  and  two  daughters,  all 
born  in  Campbell,  Santa  Clara  County: 

George  Lovell,  born  October  6,   1893. 

Mary  Ann,  born  January  4,   1895. 

Mildred,  born  July  25,  1896. 

He  writes: 

"After  graduation  I  entered  the  Columbia  Law 
School  in  New  York  City  in  the  fall  of  1874,  but 
returned  to  San  Francisco  in  February,  1875,  on 
account  of  ill  health.  In  July,  1875,  I  entered  the  law 
office  of  Messrs.  Jarboe  (Yale  '55)  &  Harrison,  and 
in  April,  1877,  upon  examination,  was  admitted  to 
practice  law  in  all  the  courts,  by  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  State  of  California.  In  May,  1877,  I  made  a  trip 
East  and  was  fortunate  enough  to  be  able  to  attend 
the  Triennial  reunion  of  the  Class  in  New  Haven  on 
June  26.  In  the  fall  of  the  same  year  I  returned  to 
San  Francisco  and  entered  the  law  office  of  Bishop  & 
Fifield  and  afterwards  that  of  Garber,  Thornton  & 
Bishop,  with  whom  I  remained  until  June,  1880,  when 
I  again  made  a  trip  through  the  western  states  visiting 


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GEORGE  LINCOLN  BEAVER 


relatives,  principally  in  the  state  of  Indiana.  In 
November,  1880,  I  returned  to  California  and  shortly 
afterwards  relinquished  the  profession  of  the  law  and 
in  February,  1881,  I  removed  to  Santa  Clara  County 
and  became  engaged  in  horticultural  pursuits  near  the 
town  of  Campbell. 

"While  in  San  Francisco  I  was  a  member  of  the 
Bohemian  Club,  a  well  known  social  and  literary  club; 
of  the  Chit  Chat  Club,  a  literary  club;  of  the  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon  Alumni  Association,  and  of  the  Yale 
Alumni  Association.  In  Santa  Clara  County  I  was  a 
member  of  the  Pacific  Coast  Fruit  Association,  the 
California  Cured  Fruit  Association,  and  am  now  a 
member  of  the  Santa  Clara  County  Fruit  Exchange 
and  the  West  Side  Fruit  Growers  Association. 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


"In  1904,  in  company  with  my  wife,  I  visited  the 
St.  Louis  Exposition  and  was  away  from  home  about 
six  weeks.  In  St.  Louis  I  saw  my  classmate  Fred  A. 
Cline,  and  in  Chicago  my  classmates  Owen  F.  Aldis 
and  Harry  S.  Robbins.  Our  former  classmate,  Nathan 
E.  Beckwith,  lives  about  six  miles  from  me,  about  a 
mile  back  from  Los  Gatos  in  the  hills.  I  have  not 
seen  any  classmates  lately  except  Tom  Wickes,  who  is 
now  a  practicing  attorney  in  San  Francisco. 

"I  have  simply  led  the  quiet  life  of  a  fruit  grower 
in  what  is  probably  the  finest  fruit  section  of  the  world, 
the  famous  Santa  Clara  Valley,  for  the  last  thirty 
years." 

*George  Willis  Benedict 

Died   1907 


GEORGE    WILLIS    BENEDICT 


Born  September  25,  1852, 
in  South  Norwalk,  Conn.,  the 
son  of  George  and  Amanda 
(Benedict)  Benedict. 

He  prepared  at  Wilton 
Educational  Institute,  Wilton. 
Conn. 

He  was  unmarried. 

After  graduation  Bene- 
dict spent  two  years  in 
the  Yale  Medical  School. 
He  finished  his  course  at 
the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons,  receiving 
his  degree  in  1878.  He 
then  began  practice  in 
South    Norwalk    and    in 


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11 


1885  was  appointed  postmaster  of  that  city.     Upon 
the  expiration  of  his  term  he  resumed  his  practice. 

Benedict  died  August  23,  1907,  at  a  sanitarium  in 
Westport,  Conn.,  where  he  was  receiving  treatment  for 
nervous  trouble.  He  was  a  member  of  the  South 
Norwalk  Club  and  the  Norwalk  Yacht  Club.  He  was 
also  a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church. 


*Thomas  Armstrong  Bent 

Died  1876 

Born  April  23,   1844,  in  Westchester,  Pa.,  the  son  of  David  J. 
and  Emeline  M.  Bent. 

He  prepared  at  the  West  Chester  Academy  in  West  Chester. 
He  entered  the  Class  of  '72  in 
the  fall  of  1868  but  remained 
only  a  few  weeks.  The  re- 
mainder of  that  year  he  spent 
at  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School  in  New  Haven,  and  in 
1869  joined  the  Class  of  '73. 
He  continued  with  this  Class 
until  the  end  of  Junior  year. 
He  entered  '74  during  the 
early  part  of  Junior  year,  and 
remained  with  it  until  gradu- 
ation. 

He  was  unmarried. 

In  the  fall  Bent  began 
study  at  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Divinity 
School  in  West  Phila- 
delphia, and  was  in  the 
Senior  Class  at  the  time  thomas  Armstrong  bent 


12  BIOGRAPHIES 

of  his  death.  During  the  last  year  of  his  life  he  was 
lay  reader  of  a  little  mission  chapel  at  Clifton,  a  suburb 
of  Philadelphia. 

While  actively  engaged  in  these  duties  he  was 
stricken  with  pleuro-pneumonia  and,  after  an  illness 
lasting  a  little  more  than  two  weeks,  died  October  31, 
1876,  in  Clifton  Heights,  Pa. 


Charles  William  Benton 

Professor  of  French  and  head  of  the  department  of  Romance 
languages,  University  of  Minnesota 

Residence — 516   Ninth  Avenue,   S.   E.,   Minneapolis,   Minn. 

Born  January  20,  1852,  in  Tolland,  Conn.,  the  son  of  William 
Austin  and  Loanza  G.  Benton. 

He  received  his  preparation  at  the  National  College,  Beirut, 
Syria,   1864-1869,  and  in  New  London,  Conn. 

He  was  married  May  29,  1899,  in  Fergus  Falls,  Minn.,  to  Miss 
Elma  C.  Hixson,  a  graduate  of  Hamline  University,  St.  Paul, 
Minn.,  daughter  of  Daniel  W.  Hixson,  senator  from  Grant  County, 
Minn.     They  have  two  sons: 

William  B.,  born  April  1,  1900. 

Daniel  H.,  born  November   19,   1901. 

After  graduation  Benton  attended  the  Yale  Theo- 
logical Seminary  for  two  years,  and  spent  one  year  at 
Union  Seminary,  New  York,  taking  a  course  of  gradu- 
ate study  in  connection  with  his  theological  study. 
This  course  in  theology  was  in  line  of  preparation  for 
a  Ph.D.  in  the  Semitic  languages.  He  was  a  candidate 
for  this  degree  at  Harvard,  1879-1880,  but  left  his 
work  in  the  Oriental  languages  to  accept  his  present 
position  in  Minnesota.  Since  1880  he  has  been  profes- 
sor of  French  in  the  University  of  Minnesota,  where 


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13 


CHARLES    WILLIAM    BENTON 


he  is  now  head  of  the  department  of  Romance  lan- 
guages. There  are  nine  members  in  the  department 
and  seven  hundred  and  seventy-four  students.  He 
received  the  degree  of  M.A.  from  Yale  in  1897  and 
the  degree  of  Litt.D.  from  the  Western  University  of 
Pennsylvania  in  the  same  year.     He  writes: 

"During  the  thirty  years  since  1880  the  University 
of  Minnesota  has  grown  from  an  institution  of  four 
hundred  students  to  one  of  six  thousand.  During  this 
period  I  have  crossed  the  ocean  eight  times,  and  have 
traveled  in  Spain,  Italy,  Germany,  France  and  Eng- 
land. In  1894  I  was  given  one  year's  leave  of  absence, 
which  was  spent  in  study  in  Berlin  and  Paris. 

"The  only  members  of  the  Class  whom  I  have  seen 
in  Minnesota  are  John  L.  Scudder,  who  was  pastor  of 
the  First  Congregational  Church  for  four  years,  and 


14  BIOGRAPHIES 

Governor  Brady,  who  visited  me  a  number  of  times 
while  traveling  through  the  country.  Yale  has  given  us 
a  president  in  Cyrus  Northrop,  '57,  for  twenty-seven 
years,  and  we  have  paid  back  the  debt  by  giving  Yale 
a  dean  in  the  person  of  Prof.  Frederic  S.  Jones,  '84. 
In  this  connection  it  is  interesting  to  note  that  Yale 
has  again  furnished  Minnesota  with  a  president,  George 
E.  Vincent,  '85,  elected  in  1911. 

"We  have  several  Yale  men  in  our  faculty.  I  think 
now  of  Dr.  Eddy,  dean  of  our  graduate  school,  Albert 
B.  White,  '93,  Ph.D.  '98,  and  Wallace  Notestein,  M.A. 
'03,  of  the  history  department;  Nichols  of  the  rhetoric 
department;  John  J.  Flather,  '85,  of  the  college  of 
engineering  and  Frank  LeR.  McVey,  Ph.D.  '95, 
recently  elected  to  the  presidency  of  North  Dakota 
University." 

Benton  has  been  president  of  the  local  branch  of  the 
Alliance  Francaise  since  1908.  He  has  written  "The 
Golden  Periods  of  Literature:  Italian,  Dante," 
published  by  the  Chicago  Record  Company,  1897,  and 
has  edited  a  series  "College  French  Plays,"  published 
by  Scott  Foresman  &  Company,  Chicago,  1909,  1910 
and  1911. 


*William  Burger  Bininger 

Died   1908 

Born  June  11,  1852,  in  New  York  City,  the  son  of  Abraham 
and  Elizabeth  E.    (Draper)   Bininger. 

He  prepared  for  college  with  a  private  tutor  and  was  a  member 
of  the  Class  of  '73  until  the  end  of  Junior  year,  joining  the  Class 
of  '74  for  the  last  half  of  the  course. 

He  was  unmarried. 


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From  the  time  of  grad- 
uation until  September, 
1885,  he  was  engaged 
with  his  father  in  the 
wine  business.  He  then 
became  a  member  of  the 
staff  of  the  Xew  York 
Star.  Upon  the  death 
of  the  owner,  Bininger 
took  an  editorial  position 
on  the  Xew  York  Herald 
in  May,  1889,  and  was 
well  known  among  news- 
paper men  for  twenty 
years. 

Bininger  died  of  apo- 
plexy, May  15,  1908,  at 
"Oakwood,"  Xew  Ham- 
burg, N.  Y. 


i* 


WILLIAM    BURGER    BININGER 


Samuel  Fairbank  Blodgett 

Superintendent  of  Public  Schools,  Framingham,  Mass. 

Residence  address — 4«   Thurber   Street,   South  Framingham,   Mass. 

Business  address — High  School,  South  Framingham,  Mass. 

Born  September  24,  1849,  in  Jacksonville,  111.,  the  son  of 
Willard  and  Margaret  T.  Blodgett. 

He  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter,  N.  H. 

He  was  married  June  6,  1878,  in  Stoneham,  Mass.,  to  Miss 
Annie  Elizabeth  Parker,  daughter  of  Samuel  W.  Parker,  a  piano 
manufacturer  of  Leominster,  Mass.     They  have  one  son: 

George  Parker,  born  May  14,  1884. 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


SAMUEL    FAIRBANK    BLODGETT 


He  writes: 

"After  graduation  I  spent  one  year  at  my  home  in 
Jacksonville,  111.,  but  since  that  time  have  been  con- 
stantly engaged  in  educational  work.  In  1875-1876  I 
was  engaged  in  grammar  school  work  at  Hinsdale,  111. 
From  1876  to  1887  I  was  located  in  Southboro,  Mass., 
as  a  grammar  school  teacher  for  three  years  and  for 
eight  years  as  principal  of  the  Peters  High  School. 
From  1887  to  1896  I  was  superintendent  of  schools  in 
Milford,  Mass.,  and  since  1896  have  held  the  same 
position  in  Framingham,  Mass. 

"I  am  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church  and  was 
for  five  years  junior  warden  of  the  Trinity  Episcopal 
Church  of  Milford.  I  was  president  of  the  Framing- 
ham  Country  Club  at  the  time  of  its  organization  and 
am  still  a  member.     I  am  devoted  to  outdoor  sports 


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and  have  derived  much  pleasure  from  hunting,  fishing, 
golfing,  and  tennis  in  days  when  the  muscles  responded 
more  quickly  than  at  present. 

"As  a  member  of  the  Boston  Yale  Club  I  meet 
Bushnell  and  Brady  more  frequently  than  any  others. 
Bradstreet  and  I  try  to  get  together  once  a  year  to  see 
who  plays  the  poorer  golf." 

Edward  Alexander  Bouchet 

Teacher 

Residence — 837    Third    Avenue,    Gallipolis,'  Ohio 

Permanent  address — 94-  Bradley  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Born  September  15,  1852,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  the  son  of 
William  F.  and  Susan  C.  Bouchet. 

He  prepared  at  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
He  is  unmarried. 

Concerning  his  life  since  graduation  Bouchet  writes: 
"In  the  fall  of  1874  I  entered  the  post-graduate 
department  of  my  Alma  Mater  as  a  candidate  for  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy,  in  science,  taking 
experimental  physics  under  Professor  A.  W.  Wright, 
Yale  '59,  calculus  with  Professor  H.  A.  Newton,  Yale 
'50,  and  chemistry  and  mineralogy  in  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School  under  Professors  Allen,  Yale  '61  S., 
and  Brush,  Yale  '52  S.  At  commencement,  1876,  I 
received  my  Ph.D. 

"In  September,  1876,  I  began  teaching  physics  and 
chemistry  in  the  Institute  for  Colored  Youth,  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.,  and  continued  to  fill  that  position  until 
June,  1902.  From  September,  1902,  until  November, 
1903,  I  was  connected  with  the  Sumner  High  School, 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


EDWARD  ALEXANDER  BOUCHET 


St.  Louis,  Mo.,  as  teacher  of  physics  and  mathematics. 
From  November,  1903,  until  May,  1904,  I  was  business 
manager  for  the  Provident  Hospital,  a  private  institu- 
tion located  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.  From  May,  1904,  until 
March,  1905,  I  was  United  States  Inspector  of  Cus- 
toms at  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition  in  St. 
Louis,  stationed  at  Ceylon  Court.  This  appointment 
was  obtained  through  the  good  offices  of  the  Honorable 
Charles  F.  Joy  and  other  St.  Louis  friends.  In  Octo- 
ber, 1906,  I  became  director  of  Academics  at  the  St. 
Paul  Normal  and  Industrial  School,  located  at  Law- 
renceville,  Va.,  where  I  remained  until  June,  1908, 
and  in  September,  1908,  I  accepted  the  position  of 
principal  of  the  Lincoln  High  School  at  Gallipolis, 
Ohio. 


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19 


"My  favorite  recreations  are  walking  and  rowing. 
The  classmates  I  have  met  most  frequently  have  been 
George  L.  Dickerman,  Henry  W.  Farnam,  George 
L.  Fox,  George  M.  Gunn,  Charles  F.  Joy,  James  C. 
Sellers  and  Edmund  Zacher." 


William  Cutler  Bowers 

Physician 
336  State  Street,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Born  March   17,   1852,  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  the  son  of  Caleb 
B.  and  Fannie   (Cutler)   Bowers. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New 
Haven. 

He  was  married  June   1,   1882,  to   Miss   Katharine   Suffern,  of 
Haverstraw,  N.  Y.     They  have  two  daughters: 

Mary  Dwight,  born  March  5,  1883. 

Katharine  S.,  born  February 
18,  1885. 

After  graduation  Bow- 
ers studied  medicine  for 
two  years  at  the  Yale 
Medical  School,  and  six 
months  at  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons, 
Xew  York  City,  gradu- 
ating at  the  latter  place 
in  1877.  He  has  prac- 
ticed medicine  in  Bridge- 
port, Conn.,  since  that 
time  and  has  failed  to 
reply  to  the  requests  of 
the  Secretary  for  a  more 
detailed    account    of    his 

interests.  william  cutler  bowers 


20  BIOGRAPHIES 

Edward  Thomas  Bradstreet 

Physician 
Address — Meriden,  Conn. 

Born  February  15,  1852,  in  Thomaston,  Conn.,  the  son  of 
Thomas  J.  and  Amanda  Thomas  Bradstreet. 

He  prepared  at  Thomaston,  Conn. 

He  was  married  December  25,  1875,  in  Thomaston,  Conn.,  to 
Miss  Alice  E.  Pierce,  daughter  of  Hiram  Pierce  of  Thomaston. 
secretary  of  the  Seth  Thomas  Clock  Company.  They  have  had 
three  children: 

Alice  Pierce,  born  November  23,  1876,  died  August  30,  1882. 

Edward  Dudley,  Yale  '01,  born  November  11,  1878. 

Mary  Thomas,  born  November  20,  1884,  married  Roswell  B. 
Hyatt,  Yale  '03. 

Bradstreet  entered  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons,  New  York  City,  immediately  after  gradua- 
tion, and  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1877.  In 
1912  he  was  elected  president  of  the  Connecticut  State 
Medical  Society. 

"I  have  practiced  medicine  in  Meriden,  Conn.,  since 
1877,"  he  writes.  "My  professional  honors  have  been 
chiefly  the  good-will  of  the  other  doctors  and  their  kind 
regard.  That  I  have  remained  honest  I  think  is  proven 
by  the  fact  that  I  examine  for  fifteen  old-line  life 
insurance  companies. 

"My  favorite  recreations  have  been  tennis,  until  I 
grew  too  old  for  it,  then  golf  and  chess  and  bridge ;  am 
a  bum  golfer  though  I  have  played  enough  to  be  a  star ; 
the  same  with  chess.  I  learned  whist  at  Yale  and  there- 
fore play  bridge  pretty  well.  I  take  a  walking  trip 
every  thirty-five  years.  Walked  through  the  White 
Mountains  in  1907;    climbed  Mount  Washington  and 


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21 


EDWARD    THOMAS    BRADSTREET 


found  my  wind  good  in  spite  of  coffee  and  tobacco,  in 
the  use  of  which  I  think  I  could  be  found  to  hold  the 
Class  record. 

"Socially,  I  am  proudest  of  having  been  president  of 
the  Meriden  Golf  Club  since  its  organization  and  for 
several  years  president  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association 
of  Meriden.  With  the  exception  of  a  trip  to  England 
in  1903  my  travels  have  been  short. 

"Of  my  classmates  I  have  seen  Sam  Blodgett  the 
longest  at  a  time  as  we  sit  up  late  when  he  visits  me  on 
his  way  to  New  Haven.  Sam  Bushnell  has  been  my 
most  regular  correspondent.  He  writes  me  every  two 
years  for  my  football  tickets. 

"My  son  graduated  from  Yale  in  1901  and  has  taken 
up  painting.  He  spent  one  year  at  the  Yale  Art  School 
and  three  years  at  the  Art  Students  League  in  New 


22  BIOGRAPHIES 

York,  and  is  now  in  Vienna.  My  daughter  was  a  stu- 
dent at  St.  Margaret's  School  in  Waterbury,  Conn., 
and  is  now  married  to  Roswell  B.  Hyatt,  Yale  '03,  and 
resides  in  Meriden. 

"In  taking  the  inventory  of  my  life  it  seems  to  me 
that  I  have  had  much  more  happiness  than  is  usual. 
My  home-life  has  surpassed  a  young  man's  dreams.  I 
inherited  just  enough  money  to  keep  me  from  worry 
but  not  from  work.  I  have  friends  I  cannot  account 
for  and  to  whom  I  cannot  pay  adequate  tribute. 

"  'I've  had  a  good  time!  A  good,  good  time, 
'Nobody  knows  how  good  a  time  but  me.'  ' 

John  Green  Brady 

Residence — 530  West  122d  Street,  New  York  City 

Born  May  25,   1848,  in  New  York  City. 

He  prepared  largely  by  his  own  reading  and  private  instruction. 

He  was  married  in  Cochranton,  Pa.,  October  20,  1887,  to  Miss 
Elizabeth  Patton,  Maplewood  Institute,  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  '83, 
daughter  of  Hugh  Patton,  a  merchant  of  Cochranton,  Pa.  They 
have  five  children,  all  born  in  Sitka,  Alaska: 

John  Green,  Jr.,  born  August  1,  1889. 

Hugh  Picken,  Yale  '14,  born  February  19,  1891. 

Sheldon  Jackson,  born  September  22,  1892. 

Mary  Beattie,  born  April  29,  1894. 

Elizabeth  Coley,  born  September  1,  1896. 

Brady  was  governor  of  Alaska  from  1897  to  1906 
and  is  now  temporarily  residing  in  New  York.  Of  his 
life  both  before  and  after  coming  to  Yale  he  writes: 

"I  was  born  in  Pearl  Street,  New  York  City,  May 
25,  1848,  and  did  not  know  this  date  until  two  years 
ago  when  I  learned  it  at  the  Baptismal  Record  of  St. 


GRADUATES 


23 


JOHN    GREEN     BRADY 


Andrew's  Church  near  City  Hall  Square.  My  mother 
died  while  I  was  very  young.  My  father  was  a  long- 
shoreman and  worked  along  South  Street.  He 
married  again.  I  was  called  a  bad  boy  and  got  pun- 
ished accordingly.  I  took  to  the  streets  and  they  were 
most  delightful.  I  was  taken  to  Randall's  Island, 
where  I  was  sent  to  school.  After  two  years  of  train- 
ing there,  I  was  taken  West  with  twenty  other  boys 
and  six  girls  to  Xoblesville,  Ind.,  where  we  were  placed 
in  the  homes  of  the  people  who  applied  for  us. 

"Mr.  John  Green  of  the  country  town  of  Tipton, 
north  of  Xoblesville,  happened  to  be  present  and  took 
me.  He  had  a  farm  near  the  town.  I  was  kept  upon 
it  and  put  to  work.  At  that  time  Mr.  Green  was  a 
state  senator,  and  in  the  election  of  1860  was  elected 
common  pleas  judge,  having  a  circuit  of  five  counties. 


24  BIOGRAPHIES 

"Growing  up  in  this  household  I  learned  to  read  The 
Indianapolis  Journal  and  the  Cincinnati  Daily  Gazette. 

"When  the  Civil  War  broke  out  I  was  intensely 
excited  and  wished  to  be  taken  as  a  drummer  boy  or  in 
some  other  capacity  but  was  repeatedly  rejected.  On 
account  of  numerous  changes  in  the  family,  farm  life 
became  irksome,  and  I  applied  for  a  position  as  a 
real  Hoosier  schoolmaster,  and  obtained  a  place  at  the 
Fairbanks  school  house  on  Mud  Creek,  about  two  miles 
east  of  Sharpsville. 

"It  was  here  that  my  religious  feelings  were  stirred 
very  profoundly,  and  as  a  consequence  started  me  on 
a  new  course.  Some  months  after  the  school  was  out 
I  went  to  Waveland  to  enter  into  a  preparatory  course 
in  study  with  the  view  of  entering  Hanover  College, 
near  Madison,  Ind.  At  this  school  I  was  fortunate 
enough  to  be  under  a  most  excellent  teacher,  Mr.  H.  S. 
Kritz,  whose  memory  is  revered  by  many  men  in  that 
part  of  the  state. 

"When  I  arrived  at  this  town  I  had  some  means 
which  I  had  saved.  I  reduced  my  expenses  by  sawing 
cord  wood,  milking  the  cow,  and  making  garden  for 
my  landlady,  and  acting  as  janitor  at  the  Academy, 
and  sexton  of  the  church. 

"It  entered  my  head  somehow  to  go  to  an  Eastern 
college,  and  the  more  I  thought  it  over  the  more  desir- 
able it  seemed.  We  had  studied  the  text-books  of 
Professor  Henry  N.  Day,  and  I  learned  from  them  that 
he  resided  in  New  Haven.  I  recalled  the  fact  too,  that 
while  I  was  on  Randall's  Island  some  men  called  one 
day  and  spoke  to  us.  We  were  told  they  were  from 
Yale  College,  for  I  can  recollect  that  the  old  Elm  City 
used  to  go  by  the  island.     We  used  to  notice  it  and 


GRADUATES  25 


say  that  she  was  bound  for  New  Haven.  With  this 
meager  stock  of  thoughts  I  ventured  to  address  a  letter 
to  Professor  Day.  In  due  time  to  my  great  joy  I 
received  an  encouraging  but  cautious  reply.  This 
buoyed  me  up  mightily,  and  I  wrote  to  Mr.  Green  from 
Waveland  informing  him  of  what  prospect  I  had  to 
go  to  Yale,  and  although  I  did  not  plainly  ask  it,  I 
let  him  understand  that  I  would  like  his  assistance. 
He  replied  that  if  a  young  man  was  going  to  spend 
his  life  in  the  West  he  did  not  see  why  a  western  college 
was  not  good  enough.  My  going  to  Yale  College 
might  be  like  a  Mussulman  going  to  Mecca:  there 
might  be  something  in  it,  but  as  far  as  he  was  concerned 
he  was  resolved  to  let  every  fellow  hoe  his  own  row. 
I  was  sorely  disappointed  for  I  had  scarcely  a  dollar 
and  I  needed  to  study  very  closely  during  vacation  in 
order  to  make  a  possible  entrance.  I  replied  that  I  was 
going  to  Yale  College  if  I  had  to  walk. 

"A  good  old  farmer,  Asa  Fordice,  for  whom  I  had 
worked  in  vacation,  took  me  into  his  family  for  the 
summer,  giving  me  most  of  the  time  for  study,  and 
when  the  time  came  to  start,  he  gave  me  forty  dollars. 

"I  have  a  very  lively  recollection  of  my  entrance  into 
Xew  Haven.  Professor  Day  had  not  returned  from 
his  vacation  and  I  did  not  know  which  way  to  turn. 
I  had  but  a  few  dollars  and  at  one  dollar  per  night 
for  lodging  in  the  old  Merchant's  Hotel,  where  the 
depot  then  was,  it  was  still  less  when  on  the  morning 
I  went  to  hunt  the  place  where  examinations  were  to 
be  held  that  day  for  those  desiring  to  enter.  I  had 
all  my  belongings  in  a  black  oil  cloth  bag  patterned 
after  the  old  fashioned  carpet  bag.  I  had  a  sick  heart 
and  felt  lonesome  as  I  sat  beneath  a  large  elm  just 


26  BIOGRAPHIES 

inside  the  fence  at  the  corner  of  the  Campus  opposite 
Old  South. 

"At  last  I  ventured  to  ask  two  young  fellows  whom  I 
had  noticed,  as  they  had  passed  in  and  out  several  times, 
where  the  place  for  examinations  was?  They  asked  if 
I  wished  to  enter  college  and  upon  hearing  my  answer 
each  tried  to  pledge  me  to  his  society  as  they  were 
scouts  for  that  purpose.  As  I  afterwards  learned  they 
were  Day  and  Elder  of  '73.  After  a  stubborn  refusal 
on  the  ground  that  I  was  not  in  college  and  for  the 
stronger  reason  which  I  did  not  care  to  give,  namely 
that  I  could  not  afford  it,  Elder,  I  believe  it  was, 
answered  my  question  and  I  could  well  discern  that 
they  felt  that  they  had  found  a  curiosity  on  the 
Campus.  'Go  around  this  way,'  he  said  pointing,  'to 
the  corner  of  the  grounds  and  you  will  see  a  building 
of  red  sandstone  with  embattlements  like  a  castle,  that's 
the  place.'  I  asked  if  they  could  tell  me  where  I  could 
leave  my  bag  and  one  pointing  said,  'Over  there  at  the 
Xew  Haven  House.'  I  have  never  forgotten  the  kind- 
ness with  which  I  was  treated  when  I  entered  that 
house  and  asked  if  my  bag  could  remain  there  for  a 
few  hours.  The  clerk  must  have  taken  in  the  situation 
at  a  glance  and  very  gently  and  promptly  relieved  me. 
I  found  the  building  'like  a  castle'  and  we  all  no 
doubt  associate  our  greenness  with  Alumni  Hall.  Did 
ever  a  boy  more  utterly  lonely  and  green  come  upon 
that  campus?  I  soon  got  into  an  environment  and 
began  to  work  hard  to  get  rid  of  two  conditions  under 
Professor  Packard  and  Tutor  Woods.  The  Rush  at 
Hamilton  Park  was  a  profound  experience  just  after 
leaving  Hoosierdom. 


GRADUATES  27 


"I  desire  to  take  this  opportunity  to  express  my 
gratitude  to  the  members  of  the  Class ;  for  not  by  look 
or  manner  or  by  ill  remark  did  any  ever  try  to  wound 
my  feelings  or  make  me  uncomfortable  on  account  of 
my  poverty.  This  is  part  of  the  Yale  Spirit  and  I  pray 
God  that  it  may  ever  abide  and  possess  the  hearts  of 
each  succeeding  class. 

"I  received  many  substantial  tokens  of  kindness. 
During  the  summer  of  1874  I  had  charge  of  Phelps 
Mission  on  East  Thirty-fifth  Street,  New  York  City. 
In  the  fall  of  that  year  I  entered  Union  Theological 
Seminary,  then  at  9  University  Place,  New  York, 
where  I  graduated  in  the  Class  of  1877. 

"I  spent  the  vacation  of  1875  on  the  ocean  and  in 
London,  England.  During  my  Seminary  course  I 
took  an  active  interest  in  city  missionary  work,  espe- 
cially in  Camp  Mission,  then  on  Elizabeth  Street,  and 
often  visited  the  lodging  houses  for  boys  under  the 
care  of  the  Children's  Aid  Society.  When  about 
through  my  Seminary  course  I  addressed  a  letter  to 
my  old  pastor,  Dr.  Isaac  Monfort,  then  at  Denver, 
Colo.,  seeking  advice.  He  turned  this  over  to  Dr. 
Sheldon  Jackson,  Synodical  Missionary  for  the  Pres- 
byterian Church.  He  urged  upon  me  a  mission  field  at 
Silverton  in  the  San  Juan  mountains  of  Colorado  and 
I  consented  to  go.  But  the  condition  of  boys  from 
twelve  to  sixteen  years  of  age  whom  I  met  in  the 
lodging  houses  appealed  to  me  strongly. 

"I  thought  I  understood  well  the  reasons  why  boys 
of  their  age,  as  a  rule,  do  not  do  well  when  placed 
upon  farms  in  the  West.  The  boy  does  not  know  the 
farm  nor  its  owner ;  the  farmer  does  not  know  the  city 
boy.      The  lad  needs  a  certain  amount  of  preliminary 


28  BIOGRAPHIES 

training  in  practical  every  day  affairs  of  farm  home. 
He  will  thus  be  saved  from  scolding,  ridicule  and 
chastisement  at  the  hands  of  a  man  who  feels  outraged 
by  the  loss  of  property  by  a  boy  who  has  done  it  wil- 
fully and  should  know  better.  I  therefore,  conceived 
the  idea  of  organizing  a  large  training  farm  where  a 
boy  could  be  prepared  to  be  placed  with  a  farmer.  I 
believed  that  such  a  farm,  once  under  way,  could  be 
made  self-supporting  by  the  labor  of  the  boys. 

"Arthur  M.  Dodge  of  our  Class  was  then  in  the 
lumber  business  at  Jersey  City  and  I  called  at  his  office 
and  told  him  of  my  plan.  He  entertained  it  favora- 
bly and  brought  it  to  the  attention  of  his  father.  I 
thought  that  Texas  would  be  the  best  western  field  for 
such  an  enterprise.  The  soil  is  rich  and  yields  gener- 
ously, and  a  variety  of  crops  can  be  grown;  it  was 
growing  rapidly,  being  settled  largely  by  young 
families,  and  would  thus  be  the  best  area  in  which  to 
find  suitable  homes  for  the  boys.  Accordingly,  I  spent 
the  summer  of  1877  in  going  over  that  vast  state  by 
rail  and  on  horseback.  I  selected  a  farm  of  1700  acres 
on  the  Brazos  River,  southwest  from  Weather  ford, 
and  was  given  an  option  on  it  for  a  small  sum.  In 
due  time  I  returned  to  New  York,  rich  in  nothing  save 
enthusiasm.  The  fall  of  1877  was  a  severe  one  in 
money  matters  and  Mr.  William  E.  Dodge  told  me 
that  he  did  not  see  how  he  could  take  on  a  new  project. 

"While  I  was  in  Texas,  Dr.  Sheldon  Jackson  was  on 
his  first  visit  to  Alaska,  and  what  he  saw  and  learned 
was  a  wonderful  revelation  of  the  worth  and  value  of 
our  new  possession  in  that  corner  of  the  continent. 
When  we  met  in  New  York  he  was  more  urgent  for 
me  to  go  to  Alaska  than  to  Colorado.     It  was  with 


GRADUATES  29 


great  reluctance  that  I  gave  up  the  hope  of  organizing 
the  boys'  training  farm  in  Texas  and  consented  to  be 
shunted  in  an  opposite  direction  to  the  verge  of  the 
continent  and  live  perhaps  in  an  igloo. 

"Dr.  Jackson  had  to  be  persistent  and  use  every  effort 
to  get  the  Presbyterian  Board  of  Home  Missions  to 
take  up  work  in  Alaska.  While  the  Board  was  coining 
to  a  decision  I  was  kept  waiting  for  about  three 
months  and,  becoming  weary,  began  to  seek  another 
field.  When  they  finally  decided  to  take  on  the  field 
and  sent  for  me  it  was  with  still  greater  reluctance 
that  I  gave  my  consent. 

"I  landed  on  March  13,  1878.  I  shall  not  attempt 
to  impose  upon  the  Class  in  this  sketch  the  story  of  my 
life  in  Alaska.  I  was  but  one  year  under  the  commis- 
sion of  the  Board  drawing  a  salary.  I  should  like  to 
tell  why  but  refrain.  I  am  a  believer  in  missions,  and 
practically  I  have  been  a  missionary  all  these  years  and 
have  been  so  classed  by  my  enemies. 

"I  soon  learned  to  appreciate  Alaska  for  the  beauty 
and  grandeur  of  its  scenery  and  the  great  wealth  of 
its  resources.  In  1880  I  entered  into  an  active  busi- 
ness life  and  continued  in  it  until  my  appointment 
as  Governor  of  the  District  in  1897  by  President 
McKinley.  I  received  a  second  appointment  at  his 
hands  and  again  a  third  appointment  to  the  same  office 
by  President  Roosevelt.  While  holding  this  important 
office  for  so  many  years,  1897-1906,  I  tried  to  do  many 
things  besides  drawing  my  breath  and  salary.  The 
revision  of  the  code  of  laws  under  which  we  were  trying 
to  live  was  largely  accomplished  through  my  efforts, 
lobbying  for  three  winters  at  Washington,  at  my  own 
expense.     The  boundary  line,  the  protection  of  seals, 


30  BIOGRAPHIES 

the  increase  of  the  judiciary  for  the  proper  protection  of 
life  and  property,  etc.,  etc.,  were  some  of  the  weighty 
subjects  which  were  treated  in  my  nine  annual  reports 
to  the  President.  In  1906  I  resigned  to  go  into 
mining  and  embrace  the  opportunity  to  move  my 
family  east  and  place  my  five  children  in  school. 

"I  still  hold  my  mining  and  other  interests  in  that 
territory.  Much  of  my  time  is  now  given  to  lecturing 
with  globe,  charts,  maps,  and  slides,  trying  to  tell  and 
instruct  the  people  what  Alaska  really  is  and  how  much 
it  has  in  store  for  our  young  people  who  will  be  brave 
and  resolute  enough  to  go  there  and  appropriate  their 
share." 

[In  the  summer  of  1912  Brady's  children  were  situ- 
ated as  follows:  Hugh  P.  was  about  to  enter  upon  his 
Junior  year  at  Yale;  John  G.,  Jr.,  was  about  to  enter 
Princeton;  Seldon  Jackson  was  expecting  to  enter 
the  Freshman  Class  at  Yale;  Mary  B.  was  about  to 
enter  the  Freshman  Class  at  Vassar,  and  Elizabeth  C. 
was  a  Junior  in  the  High  School.] 

Henry  Dayton  Bristol 

Vice-president  Johnson  Service  Company 

Business  address — 123  East  Twenty-seventh  Street, 
New  York  City 

Born  February  21,  1851,  in  Birmingham  (Derby),  Conn.,  the 
son  of  William  C.  and  Mary  Ann  Betts  Bristol. 

He  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
He  was  married  June  27,  1904,  to  Miss  Lucie  M.  Wilson. 

Since  1895  Bristol  has  been  vice-president  of  the 
Johnson  Service  Company  of  New  York  City. 
Concerning  his  career  since  graduation  he  writes: 


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31 


HENRY    DAYTON    BRISTOL 


"In  the  fall  of  1874  I  entered  the  Scientific  School 
for  the  purpose  of  taking  a  course  in  Civil  Engineering. 
In  February  I  was  taken  sick  with  varioloid  and  did 
not  continue  the  course  after  my  recovery.  In  the 
summer  of  1875  I  accepted  a  position  with  a  division 
of  the  United  States  Coast  Survey  under  Professor 
Bache,  who  had  charge  of  a  special  topographical  sur- 
vey of  some  ten  square  miles  around  New  Haven,  which 
I  think  was  being  made  through  a  request  or  the 
influence  of  Professor  Dana.  I  remained  with  this 
division  until  the  fall.  During  the  winter  of  1875  and 
1876  I  taught  school  in  Wallingford,  Conn.  For  a 
period  of  six  years  following  I  was  employed  by  the 
Bradstreet  and  R.  G.  Dun  Mercantile  Agencies  at 
New  Haven,  Conn.     From  1881  to  the  fall  of  1887 


32  BIOGRAPHIES 

I  was  the  secretary  of  the  Strong  Firearms  Company 
of  New  Haven.  About  October  1,  1887,  I  went  to 
Kansas  City  and  remained  until  the  following  spring, 
when  I  went  to  Chicago,  111.,  and  became  interested  in 
the  Somerset  Coal  &  Coke  Company.  This  company 
was  not  a  financial  success,  and  I  entered  the  employ  of 
the  Chicago  Electric  Service  Company  in  the  spring  of 
1890.  About  July  1,  1891,  I  accepted  a  position  with 
the  Johnson  Service  Company  of  Milwaukee,  Wis., 
which  latter  company,  as  well  as  the  Chicago  Electric 
Service  Company,  was  engaged  in  the  business  of 
installing  a  system  of  temperature  regulation  in  build- 
ings of  all  kinds  for  the  automatic  control  of  all 
methods  of  heating.  About  February  15,  1893,  I 
returned  to  the  employ  of  the  Chicago  Electric  Service 
Company  and  remained  until  January  1,  1895,  when 
I  went  to  New  York  as  the  manager  of  the  Metro- 
politan Electric  Service  Company,  later  and  at  present 
known  as  the  Johnson  Service  Company.  I  was 
elected  vice-president  of  this  company  about  July  1, 
1895,  and  have  continued  in  the  same  position  to  the 
present  time. 

"My  interest  in  the  Class  and  all  matters  pertaining 
to  Yale  has  never  diminished,  and  I  feel  as  young  in 
spirit  as  ever.  But  when  I  look  over  the  Quinquennial 
Catalogue,  and  note  how  fast  the  names  of  the  Class 
of  '74  are  moving  to  the  front  of  the  list,  and  how  many 
names  have  been  added  since  our  graduation,  I  cannot 
help  realizing  how  fast  the  years  are  passing,  and  what 
progress  the  Class  is  making  towards  the  group  of 
oldest  living  graduates." 


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33 


GEORGE    SELAH    BROWN 


George  Selah  Brown 

Connected  with  the  Bristol  Brass  Company 
Address — 50  Cedar  Street,  New  Britain,  Conn. 

Born  March  27,  1851,  in  Forestville,  Conn.,  the  son  of  George  W. 
and  Elizabeth  R.  Brown. 

He  prepared  at  the  New  Britain   (Conn.)   High  School. 

He  was  married  October  11,  1876,  in  New  Britain,  Conn.,  to 
Miss  Florence  R.  Graham,  daughter  of  Franklin  Graham  of  New 
Britain.     They   have   one   daughter: 

Maude  H.,  now  Mrs.  Mazeine,  born  October  10,  1881,  in  New 
Britain,  Conn. 

Brown  writes: 

"I  graduated  from  the  Columbia  Law  School,  New 
York  City,  on  May  17,  1876,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
New  York  Bar,  but  for  private  reasons  decided  on  a 


34 


BIOGRAPHIES 


business  career.  Since  that  time  I  have  been  connected 
with  the  Bristol  Brass  Company  of  Bristol,  Conn.,  in 
various  positions,  after  the  death  of  my  father  in  1889 
becoming  agent  of  the  company. 

"During  the  past  few  years  I  have  traveled  consid- 
erably on  business  intent.  I  belong  to  the  Connect- 
icut Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  the  New 
Britain  Club  of  New  Britain,  Conn.,  and  the  Yale  and 
Hardware  clubs  of  New  York  City.  I  am  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Palestine  Commandery  ( Knight  Templars ) , 
and  Mecca  Shrine,  New  York  City." 

*Joseph  Unangst  Brown 

Died  1899 


JOSEPH    UNANGST    BROWN 


Born  July  8,  1851,  in  Eas- 
ton,  Pa.,  the  son  of  William 
David  and  Susan  Margaret 
(Unangst)   Brown. 

He  prepared  for  college  at 
S.  T.  Frost's  School,  Amenia, 
N.  Y.,  and  entered  with  Class 
of  '73.  He  entered  the  Class 
of  '74  at  the  beginning  of  its 
Junior  year. 

He  was  unmarried. 

After  graduation 
Brown  studied  law  at 
Easton  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  of  Northamp- 
ton County,  Pa.,  in  the 
winter  of  1876,  and  prac- 
ticed there  until  the  fall 


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35 


GEORGE    VANDERBURGH    BUSHNELL 


of  1887,  when  he  engaged  in  the  lumber  business  in 
Mehoopany,  Pa.,  remaining  in  this  work  until  the  sum- 
mer of  1895.  At  that  time  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
of  Lackawanna  County,  Pa.,  and  practiced  law  in 
Scranton  until  his  death,  which  occurred  on  May  30, 
1899,  in  his  forty-eighth  year. 


George  Vanderburgh  Bushnell 

Ranchman 
Address — Monrovia,  Calif. 

Born  September  11,  1851,  in  Hillsdale,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Elisha 
and  Emma  Bushnell. 

He  prepared  at  Winchester  Center,  Conn. 

He  was  married  December  26,  1878,  in  Freeport,  L.  I.,  to  Miss 
Edna  V.  Carman,  daughter  of  Samuel  A.  Carman,  a  merchant  of 
Freeport,  L.  I.     They  have  had  three  children: 


36  BIOGRAPHIES 

Georgia  C,  born  November  5,  1879,  married  Rev.  Charles  I. 
Taton,  Presbyterian  minister  at  Northport,  L.  I.,  October  19,  1904. 

Elisha  W.,  born  October  25,  1881. 

Mabel  E.,  born  April  1,  1887,  died  in  Denver,  Colo.,  September 
7,  1906. 

After  graduation  Bushnell  taught  during  the  fall 
and  winter  months  in  Chatham  Village,  N.  Y.,  and  was 
engaged  in  farming  during  the  summer.  He  taught 
from  1877  to  1889,  and  was  school  commissioner  of 
Columbia  County,  N.  Y.,  from  1879  to  1882.  He  is 
now  a  ranchman  in  California. 


Samuel  Clarke  Bushnell 

Pastor  Congregational  Church,  Arlington,  Mass. 
Address — 11    Maple  Street,  Arlington,  Mass. 

Born  March  8,  1852,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Cornelius 
S.  and  Emily  Clarke  Bushnell. 

He  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Haven, 
Conn. 

He  was  married  October  14,  1880,  in  Boston,  Mass.,  to  Miss 
Mary  Elizabeth  Kendall,  daughter  of  Isaac  Kendall  (deceased), 
a  Boston  merchant.     They  have  two  children: 

Alice  Kendall,  born  March  20,  1887,  in  Boston,  Mass. 

Samuel  Kendall,  Yale  '14,  born  May  29,  1892,  in  Arlington,  Mass. 

After  graduation  Bushnell  entered  the  Yale  Divinity 
School  for  a  three  years'  course  of  study,  receiving 
the  degree  of  B.D.  in  1877,  and  being  chosen  Class 
Secretary  of  the  Divinity  School  Class,  which  position 
he  still  holds.  He  spent  one  year  in  traveling  around 
the  world,  and  began  his  ministry  on  December  1,  1878, 
at  Acushnet,  Mass.,  as  pastor  of  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church  of  New  Bedford.      After  eleven  years 


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37 


SAMUEL    CLARKE    BUSHNELL 


in  this  parish  he  accepted  a  call  to  the  Congregational 
Church  in  Arlington,  Mass.,  beginning  his  work  on 
February  6,  1890. 

He  has  been  identified  with  the  Yale  men  of  Boston 
through  his  membership  in  the  Boston  Yale  Club,  of 
which  he  was  for  several  years  president.  He  is 
secretary  of  the  Winthrop  Club,  and  a  member  of  the 
Fortnightly,  Monday,  and  Congregational  clubs,  the 
Arlington  Boat  Club,  and  the  Oakley  Country  Club. 
His  services  have  been  desired  as  preacher  at  many  of 
the  preparatory  schools,  such  as  Andover,  Exeter, 
Milton  Academy,  Westminster,  and  Cornwall-on-the- 
Hudson. 

Bushnell  has  kept  in  touch  with  his  college  chum, 
William  Halsted,  visiting  him  frequently  in  Baltimore, 
where  he  says  he  has  often  seen  him  operate  at  Johns 


38  BIOGRAPHIES 

Hopkins,  and  rejoices  in  his  great  success  and  many 
notable  contributions  to  surgery.  He  also  calls  atten- 
tion to  the  esteem  in  which  Ellis  Mendell,  '74,  is  held 
in  Boston,  where  he  had  a  long  and  faithful  ministry, 
an  evidence  of  which  may  be  found  in  the  use  of  his 
name  for  one  of  the  new  school  houses  of  Boston,  a 
fitting  memorial  to  a  noble  career. 

His  writings  consist  of  numerous  sermons  and 
addresses,  a  few  of  which,  printed  at  the  time  of  their 
delivery,  have  been  collected  in  a  small  volume  for 
private  circulation. 


Robert  Speir  Bussing 

Lawyer 

Residence — 20  Garden  Place,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Business  address — 26  Court  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Born  January  29,  1853,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Robert 
Speir  Bussing  (deceased)  and  Mary  Kingsland  Bussing  (deceased). 

He  prepared  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

He  was  married  April  26,  1904,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  to  Mrs. 
Mary  L.  Read,  Packer  Institute  (Brooklyn)  '79,  daughter  of  James 
F.  Pierce  (deceased),  a  lawyer  of  New  York  City,  formerly  state 
senator  and  superintendent  of  insurance. 

Bussing  writes: 

"I  have  lived  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  all  my  life. 
Graduated  from  Columbia  Law  School  in  1878,  and 
was  assistant  district  attorney  of  Kings  County, 
N.  Y.,  from  1881  to  1884.  I  went  to  Australia  and 
New  Zealand  in  1884  in  behalf  of  the  Pacific  Mail 
Steamship  Company,  in  the  matter  of  mail  contracts. 


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39 


ROBERT    SPEIR    BUSSING 


In  1885-1891,  I  was  associated  with  the  New  York 
firm  of  Hoadley,  Lauterbach  &  Johnson,  and  in  1891 
was  made  attorney  for  the  American  Casualty  Insur- 
ance Company,  in  whose  behalf  I  traveled  extensively 
in  the  United  States  for  the  purpose  of  supervising 
its  law  cases.  That  company  failed  in  1897,  and  for 
three  years  I  was  busy  winding  up  its  affairs.  Soon 
afterwards  I  went  to  England  for  the  Phonograph 
Company  and  while  there,  in  London,  met  Frank 
Witherbee,  '74,  through  whose  kindness  and  with  whom 
I  had  the  great  pleasure  of  spending  three  days  with 
Andrew  Carnegie  at  his  magnificent  country  place  at 
Tunbridge  Wells,  Sussex,  England." 


40  BIOGRAPHIES 

John  Ammi  Butler 

Lawyer,  retired 

Residence — Crooked-Lake-Farm,   Oconomowoc,  Wis. 

Permanent  address — Wells  Building,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Born  in  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  October  14,  1851. 

He  prepared  at  Markham's  Academy,  Milwaukee,  and  Phillips 
Academy,  Exeter,  N.  H. 

He  was  married  October  25,  1877,  in  Bangor,  Maine,  to  Miss 
Fanny  L.  Dana,  daughter  of  Amos  Dana  (deceased),  formerly  a 
general  railway  superintendent  of  Indianapolis,  Ind.  They  have 
three  children: 

Mary  Orvilla,  born  July  25,  1878,  in  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Katharine  Dana,  born  November  29,  1880,  in  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Frances  Eleanor,  born  August  2,  1885,  at  Crooked-Lake-Farm, 
Oconomowoc,  Wis. 

Butler  did  not  graduate  with  the  Class  but,  by 
vote  of  the  Corporation  in  1905,  was  granted  his 
degree  and  enrolled  with  the  Class.  He  has  been 
a  permanent  resident  of  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  where 
after  a  year  in  Columbia  College  Law  School, 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  continued  in  prac- 
tice in  the  firm  of  Butler,  Williams  &  Butler  for 
several  years,  with  uniform  and  gratifying  success ;  but 
a  serious  injury,  together  with  the  prospective  decline 
of  litigated  business,  led  him  to  retire.  He  had  pre- 
viously attended  lectures  in  the  law  department  at 
Gottingen  and  Leipsic.  In  addition  to  several  articles 
which  were  published  in  Harper's  Magazine  in  the 
eighties,  Butler  represented  the  Chicago  Times  and 
several  other  papers  as  a  European  correspondent  and 
sent  them  weekly  letters.  In  1894  he  read  a  paper 
before  the  first  great  conference  for  better  city  govern- 


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41 


JOHN    AMMI    BUTLER 


ment  in  Philadelphia.  He  has  since  delivered  many 
addresses  before  the  National  Municipal  League  and 
has  for  many  years  been  a  member  of  its  executive 
committee.  He  founded  and  was  for  eight  years 
president  of  the  Milwaukee  Municipal  League,  which 
at  his  suggestion  and  with  his  cooperation,  drafted  and 
secured  the  passage  of  a  civil  service  law  for  Milwaukee, 
placing  several  thousand  city  employees  on  the  merit 
basis.  He  has  also  been  for  a  long  period  a  member 
of  the  council  of  the  National  Civil  Service  Reform 
League,  and  as  chairman  of  the  Executive  Council 
of  the  Wisconsin  Civil  Service  League  he  was  instru- 
mental in  securing  the  formulation  and  passage  of  a 
civil  service  law  for  the  state.  In  this  he  was  assisted 
by  Mr.  Richard  Henry  Dana,  Mr.  Elliot  H.  Goodwin, 


42  BIOGRAPHIES 

and  other  members  of  the  National  Civil  Service 
Reform  League.  Butler  was  also  the  founder  and 
first  president  of  the  Milwaukee  City  Club. 

He  has  traveled  a  great  deal  in  the  old  world  and 
elsewhere,  but  has  rarely  met  any  of  his  former  class- 
mates with  the  exception  of  the  late  Class  Secretary, 
Dickerman,  Ansley  Wilcox,  and  Henry  W.  Farnam 
of  New  Haven. 

Besides  articles  for  Harper's  and  Century  magazines 
and  for  newspapers,  he  is  the  author  of  a  book  entitled, 
"Pen  Pictures  of  Dresden's  Past." 


Wellington  Campbell 

Physician 
Address — Short  Hills,  N.  J. 

Born  September  27,  1852,  in  Milburn,  N.  J.,  the  son  of  Welling- 
ton and  Mary  T.  Campbell. 

He  prepared  at  Milburn,  N.  J. 

He  was  married  February  8,  1888,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  to 
Miss  Carolyn  S.  Foote,  daughter  of  Frederick  Foote  of  Northford, 
Conn.     They  have  had  four  children: 

Agnes  Foote,  born  April  13,  1893. 

Katharine  Wade,  born  July  18,  1896. 

Wellington  Foote,  born  October  7,  1897. 

Ruth,  born  September  25,  1898,  died  December  20,  1898. 

Campbell  writes: 

"After  graduation  I  studied  medicine  at  the  College 
of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  New  York  City,  from 
which  I  was  graduated  in  1877.  I  began  practice  in 
North  Branford,  Conn.,  in  1878,  where  I  remained 
until  1881.  Then  I  began  practice  in  Short  Hills, 
N.  J.,  where  I  have  been  ever  since. 


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43 


WELLINGTON    CAMPBELL 


"I  belong  to  numerous  medical  societies  and  have 
had  some  experience  in  political  matters,  having  been 
a  township  committeeman  for  seven  years." 


*Horace  Hatch  Chittenden 

Died  1909 

Born  January  24,  1855,  in  Burlington,  Vt.,  the  son  of  Hon. 
Lucius  Eugene  and  Mary  Yates  (Hatch)  Chittenden. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  W.  C.  Wilkinson's  School,  Tarry  town, 
N.  Y. 

He  was  married  October  11,  1877,  to  Bertha  Borridil  Peters 
of  New  York,  the  daughter  of  Dr.  George  A.  and  Julia  (Coggill) 
Peters  of  New  York  City.     They  had  two  sons: 

George  Peters,  B.A.  Yale  1901,  born  July  20,  1879,  in  New  York 
City. 

Gerald,  B.A.  Yale  1904,  M.A.  Yale  1908,  born  September  26, 
1882,  in  New  York  City. 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


After  graduation  Chittenden  spent  two  years  in  the 
Columbia  Law  School  and  received  his  degree  in  1877. 
Both  summers  he  spent  in  Europe,  principally  in 
England,  Ireland  and  Scotland.  He  was  associated 
both  before  and  after  admission  to  the  bar  with  the  firm 
of  Chittenden  &  Hubbard,  was  later  a  member  of  Chit- 
tenden, Townsend  &  Chittenden,  until  May  1,  1888,  and 
then  continued  practice  with  his  father  under  the  name 
of  L.  E.  &  H.  H.  Chittenden.  His  father  died  in 
1900  and  in  1902  Chittenden  moved  to  Burlington,  Vt. 

He  died  December  26,  1909,  in  Burlington,  from  a 
shock  following  an  operation,  in  his  fifty-fifth  year. 


HORACE    HATCH     CHITTENDEN 


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45 


FREDERICK    ADDISON    CLINE 


Frederick  Addison  Cline 

Lawyer 

Residence —  4321  Olive  Street,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Business  address — Security  Building,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Born  November  16,  1853,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  the  son  of  George 
W.  and  Livonia  Dodds  Cline. 

He  prepared  at  the  Preparatory  Department  of  Washington 
University,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  entered  the  Collegiate  Department 
of  that  university,  where  he  remained  two  years.  He  became  a 
member  of  the  Class  of  '74  at  the  commencement  of  Sophomore  year. 

He  was  married  February  4,  1880,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  to  Miss 
Frances  E.  Holmes,  a  former  student  of  Miss  Porter's  School, 
Farmington,  Conn.,  daughter  of  Robert  Holmes  (now  deceased), 
a  merchant  of  St.  Louis.     They  have  five  children: 

Frederick  Holmes,  born  January  11,  1881. 

Louis  Chauvenet,  born  June  17,  1882. 


46  BIOGRAPHIES 

John  Holmes,  born  September  2,  1883. 
Alan  Purnell,  born  August  14,  1885. 
Isabel  Violet,  born  March  18,  1894. 

Cline  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  the  St. 
Louis  Law  School  in  1876,  together  with  the  prize  for 
the  best  legal  thesis.  Since  that  time  he  has  been 
practicing  law  in  St.  Louis,  and  in  November,  1894, 
was  elected  justice  of  the  peace. 


William  Anderson  Coffin 

Landscape  Painter  and  Art  Critic 

Addresses — Box  3,  Jennerstown,  Pa. 

Lotos  Club,  New  York  City 

Born  January  31,  1855,  in  Allegheny  City,  Pa.,  the  son  of  James 
Gardiner  and  Isabella  Catharine  (Anderson)  Coffin. 
He  was  prepared  by  private  tutors. 
He  is  unmarried. 

In  September,  1874,  Coffin  engaged  in  the  business 
of  fire  insurance  with  the  firm  of  J.  G.  Coffin  &  Com- 
pany of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.  He  remained  with  them 
until  October,  1875,  when  he  returned  to  New  Haven 
and  entered  the  Yale  Art  School,  where  he  studied 
painting  for  a  year  under  Professor  Weir.  He  con- 
tinued the  study  of  art  in  the  United  States  until  1877, 
when  he  went  to  Paris  and  became  a  pupil  of  Leon 
Bonnat,  under  whom  he  studied  until  1882.  He  then 
returned  to  America  and  opened  a  studio  in  New  York 
City,  where  he  has  since  spent  the  greater  part  of  his 
time.  His  summers  have  been  spent  at  his  country 
studio  or  in  Europe. 


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47 


WILLIAM    ANDERSON    COFFIN 


Coffin  is  a  painter  of  landscape  and  figure  pieces, 
and  has  exhibited  frequently  at  the  Paris  Salon,  the 
National  Academy,  and  the  Society  of  American 
Artists,  New  York  City.  He  was  awarded  the  Hall- 
garten  prize  at  the  National  Academy  in  1886;  a 
medal  at  the  Paris  Exposition  in  1889;  the  Webb 
prize,  Society  of  American  Artists,  1891;  a  gold 
medal,  Art  Club  of  Philadelphia,  1898;  silver  medal, 
Charleston  Exposition,  1902,  and  two  medals  at  the 
St.  Louis  World's  Fair. 

He  has  been  a  director  at  the  following  exhibitions: 
Exhibition  of  Historical  Portraits  and  Relics  in  con- 
nection with  the  centennial  celebration  of  the  inaugu- 
ration of  George  Washington  as  first  President  of 
the  United  States,  New  York,  1889;   The  Loan  Exhi- 


48  BIOGRAPHIES 

bition,  Columbian  Celebration,  1892;  and  the  first 
portrait  show,  Portraits  of  Women,  1894.  He  was 
Director  of  Fine  Arts  at  the  Pan-American  Exposition 
in  Buffalo  in  1901  and  served  as  a  member  of  the 
superior  jury.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  jury  of 
award  at  other  expositions  such  as  the  one  at  Atlanta 
in  1895.  In  New  York  City  he  acted  as  a  member  of 
numerous  advisory  boards  in  connection  with  the  great 
expositions  in  Paris,  St.  Louis  and  elsewhere. 

He  wrote  in  1910: 

"This  sort  of  work,  organizing  and  conducting  art 
exhibitions,  and  committee  and  executive  work  in 
various  enterprises  such  as  the  erection  of  Washington 
Arch  in  Washington  Square,  competitions  for  mural 
paintings  and  other  commissions,  choosing  sites  for  art 
buildings,  building  committees  and  other  activities, 
took  a  good  deal  of  my  time  between  the  years  1890 
and  1904,  in  New  York.  I  also  served  constantly  on 
the  juries  of  selection  of  the  Society  of  American 
Artists,  before  it  was  merged  with  the  Academy  of 
Design  in  1906. 

"In  1906  I  took  up  my  permanent  residence  here  in 
the  Allegheny  Mountain  country  in  Pennsylvania, 
where  I  greatly  enjoy  country  life  and  have  a  good 
studio  that  I  built  on  the  farm  in  1907.  It  is  probable 
that  I  shall  return  next  year  to  New  York  for  winter 
residence  and  continue  to  spend  my  summers  here  as 
I  have  done  for  many  years  past.  I  cannot  say  that 
I  have  been  much  of  a  college  man  in  the  way  it  is 
understood  generally.  It  has  always  been  pleasant  to 
meet  and  work  with  college  men  whether  from  Yale, 
Harvard,  or  elsewhere,  though  it  often  happened  that 
we  never  thought  of  speaking  of  our  affiliations  in  that 


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respect,  until  it  came  up  in  some  way  outside  of  the 
business  in  hand.  I  have  been  in  Boston  frequently 
and  had  to  do  with  many  Harvard  men  as  a  matter 
of  course,  and  I  have  not  been  in  New  Haven  as  often 
as  I  should  have  liked.  When  I  come  to  think  of  it 
most  of  the  Yale  men  I  know  best  and  have  seen  most 
of  in  all  these  thirty-five  years  were  not  in  my  Class, 
and  the  great  majority  of  them  graduated  in  earlier 
classes  than  ours. 

"I  have  had  a  very  busy  life,  but  my  occupations  have 
permitted  me  to  have  so  much  freedom  that  I  have  been 
very  happy.  My  health  has  always  been  good  and 
beyond  the  little  premonitions  of  endurance  becoming 
less  of  a  factor  than  I  could  count  upon  a  few  years 
ago,  I  have  never  felt  better  and  heartier  than  I  do 
at  the  present  time." 

Coffin  has  written  many  articles  for  the  Century, 
Scrzbners,  and  other  magazines,  for  the  most  part 
critical  reviews  of  the  work  of  celebrated  artists  native 
and  foreign,  and  was  art  critic  on  the  New  York 
Evening  Post  and  Nation,  1886-1891,  1903-1904;  and 
art  critic  on  the  New  York  Sun,  1896-1900.  He  has  also 
done  some  biographical  work  and  critical  writing  for 
encyclopaedias,  notably  Johnson's.  He  has  been  a  regu- 
lar contributor  to  all  the  important  picture  exhibitions 
in  New  York,  Chicago,  Philadelphia,  Portland,  Seattle, 
Pittsburgh,  and  Cincinnati.  He  has  given  lectures  on 
art  in  many  of  the  leading  cities  and  universities  of 
the  country  and  on  four  or  five  occasions  has  spoken 
in  Washington  before  the  Ways  and  Means  Commit- 
tee of  Congress  in  favor  of  free  art.  He  has  been  a 
delegate  to  numerous  congresses  and  in  1900  was  one 
of  the  two  delegates  sent  from  the  United  States  to 


50  BIOGRAPHIES 

the  International  Congress  of  the  Arts  of  Design  in 
Paris. 

He  is  an  associate  of  the  National  Academy  of 
Design,  and  served  as  secretary  of  the  Society  of  Amer- 
can  Artists  from  1887  to  1892,  is  a  member  of  the 
Architectural  League  of  New  York  (vice-president  for 
two  terms)  ;  founder  and  member  of  the  Municipal 
Art  Society  of  New  York  (first  vice-president,  serving 
for  three  terms)  ;  and  a  member  of  the  Advisory  Board 
of  the  Public  Education  Society  of  New  York.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Lotos  and  Fencers  clubs. 

A  list  of  some  of  his  best  known  pictures  follows: 

"The  Rain" — (Webb  prize)  in  permanent  collection, 
Metropolitan  Museum,  New  York  City. 

"At  Break  of  Day" — in  Buffalo  Fine  Arts  Academy. 

"September" — in  William  T.  Evans  National  Col- 
lection, Washington,  D.  C. 

"A  Maple  in  Spring" — in  International  Art  Society 
Collection,  Venice,  Italy. 

Pictures  in  collections  of  City,  Lotos  and  Fencers 
clubs. 

*Edward  Lewis  Curtis 
Died  1911 

Born  October  13,  1853,  in  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.,  the  son  of  William 
S.  and  Martha  A.  (Leach)  Curtis,  who  was  a  member  of  the  second 
class  ('39)  to  graduate  from  Mount  Holyoke  Seminary,  now  Mount 
Holyoke  College. 

He  prepared  at  Elmira  Free  Academy,  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  was 
a  member  of  the  Class  of  '73  at  Beloit  College  during  its  Freshman 
and  Sophomore  years,  and  joined  the  Class  of  '74  at  the  beginning 
of  Sophomore  year. 

He  was  married  April  27,  1882,  in  Ottumwa,  Iowa,  to  Miss  Laura 
Elizabeth  Ely,  Rockford  (111.)   College,  '81,  daughter  of  the  Rev. 


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51 


EDWARD      LEWIS    CURTIS 


B.  E.  S.  Ely,  D.D.,  a  Presbyterian  clergyman  of  Des  Moines, 
Iowa.     They  had  four  children,  all  born  in  Chicago,  111.: 

Elizabeth  Eudora,  Vassar  '05,  born  March  8,  1883. 

Margaret  Martha,  Smith  '06,  Bryn  Mawr  M.A.  '07,  born  May 
30,  1884. 

Edward  Ely,  Yale  '10,  born  July  4,  1888. 

Laura  Dorothea,  Vassar  '11,  born  October  19,  1890. 

Curtis  wrote  in  1911: 

"During  the  year  after  graduation  I  taught  as  an 
assistant  in  a  high  school  at  Pittsfield,  111.,  and  also  at 
the  same  time  made  my  first  efforts  in  preaching  in 
connection  with  revival  meetings.  I  was  urged  at  that 
time  to  enter  the  ministry  at  once,  but  thanks  to  the 
counsel  of  my  parents  I  refused  to  entertain  such  an 
idea.     The  next  year,  1875-1876,  I  taught  in  Biddle 


52  BIOGRAPHIES 

Institute  (now  University),  a  Presbyterian  institute 
for  colored  people  at  Charlotte,  N.  C.  This  was  one 
of  the  best  years  of  my  life. 

"On  the  way  to  my  home  in  Rockford,  111.,  I  spent 
three  delightful  weeks  with  Sellers  at  his  home  in  West 
Chester,  Pa.,  near  Philadelphia,  visiting  the  Centennial 
Exposition.     Ragan  and  Reid  were  with  us  some  days. 

"In  the  fall  of  1876  I  entered  Union  Theological 
Seminary,  N.  Y.,  where  I  found  Brady  and  Scudder 
enrolled  as  Seniors.  I  remained  three  years,  having 
Frissell,  who  was  in  the  same  Class,  as  a  roommate  for 
two  years.  In  the  summer  of  1877  I  preached  in  the 
back  woods  of  New  Brunswick,  Canada.  On  gradu- 
ation in  May,  1879,  I  was  awarded  a  fellowship  for 
study  abroad.  Sailing  in  June  for  Scotland,  I  took  a 
brief  trip  through  Scotland  and  England  and  settled 
down  in  July  near  Neuwied-on-the-Rhine  in  a  German 
pastor's  family  to  learn  the  language.  In  October  I 
entered  the  University  of  Berlin,  where  I  studied  during 
three  semesters,  but  my  student  life  was  interrupted  by 
severe  illness  and  I  spent  two  months  in  the  hospital. 

"During  the  summer  of  1880  I  traveled  in  Germany 
and  Switzerland.  I  returned  home  in  the  late  spring 
of  1881  and  the  following  fall  I  began  teaching  Hebrew 
and  Old  Testament  subjects  at  the  McCormick  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  Chicago.  From  there  I  was  called 
to  my  present  position  at  Yale  Divinity  School  in  the 
summer  of  1891.  I  was  ordained  to  the  Presbyterian 
ministry  in  November,  1884,  and  when  in  Chicago  I 
supplied  churches  during  the  greater  number  of  the 
Sabbaths.  Since  coming  to  New  Haven,  owing  to 
more  exacting  labors  and  considerable  ill  health,  I  have 
preached  far  less. 


GRADUATES  53 


"While  living  in  Chicago  tennis  was  my  favorite 
outdoor  sport.  In  New  Haven  I  played  golf  for  a 
number  of  seasons.  During  the  summer  of  1900  I  took 
my  family  abroad,  leaving  them  to  spend  the  winter 
in  Germany.  The  next  spring  I  joined  them  and 
tramped  with  my  children  in  Switzerland.  There  I 
strained  my  heart,  already  weakened  by  hard  bicycle 
rides.  Since  then  I  have  been  compelled  to  go  slow 
and  in  January,  1906,  I  lost  at  a  stroke,  through 
embolism,  half  my  sight  in  both  eyes.  This  has 
deprived  me  completely  of  any  participation  in  outdoor 
sports  except  fishing,  which,  from  a  boat,  I  indulge  in 
during  the  summer. 

"I  received  the  honorary  degree  of  Ph.D.  from 
Hanover  College,  Ind.,  in  1886,  and  the  degree  of 
D.D.  from  Yale  in  1891." 

Curtis  held  the  chair  of  Hebrew  Language  and 
Literature  at  the  Yale  Divinity  School  1891-1911 
and  served  as  acting  dean  of  that  School  after  the 
retirement  of  Dean  Sanders  in  1905. 

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Ph.D.,  as  professor  in  the  McCormick  Theological  Seminary, 
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and  N.  Test.  Stud.,  II,  336-341,  1890;  Isaiah's  prophecy  con- 
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World,  VII,  No.  6,  411-424,  1896;  Date  of  the  Mosaic  legislation. 
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preacher.  Yale  Divinity  Quart.,  I,  No.  2,  43-50,  1904;  George 
Edward  Day:  A  memorial  address.  Yale  Divinity  Quart.,  No.  3, 
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Scribner's,  534,  1910;  The  return  of  the  Jews  under  Cyrus.  In 
Essays  in  modern  theology  and  related  subjects.  Papers  in  honor 
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In  Memoriam 

Before  his  death,  which  occurred  suddenly  on  August 
26,  1911,  Curtis  had  prepared  for  the  class  history  a  full 
bibliography  and  a  brief  account  of  the  events  of  his  life. 
These  together  tell  the  story;  he  was  a  teacher,  a 
scholar,  and  an  officer  of  the  University,  in  all  three 
capacities  equal  to  the  obligations  which  rested  upon 
him. 

The  greater  part  of  his  teaching  was  given  to  the 
two  lower  classes  of  the  Divinity  School,  in  the  form 
of  instruction  in  the  elements  of  Hebrew.  This  work, 
not  in  itself  especially  inspiring,  even  with  mature 
students,  he  repeated  with  successive  classes  here  for 
twenty  years,  finding  his  sufficient  reward  in  the  sense 
of  duty  faithfully  done.  He  also  gave  a  considerable 
variety  of  courses  in  the  more  advanced  interpretation 
of  certain  books  of  the  Old  Testament.  Such  elective 
work  connected  itself  directly  with  his  activities  as  a 
scholar,  for  which  Curtis  had  begun  to  prepare  himself 
immediately  after  leaving  Union  Seminary.  The  long 
bibliography  is  evidence  of  the  steadfastness  with 
which  he  held  to  his  early  ideals.  No  one  who  has  not 
had  some  experience  of  the  kind  of  work  represented 
in  this  list  can  quite  understand  the  industry  and  deter- 
mination that  such  a  bibliography  represents.  It 
seems  a  piece  of  good  fortune  that  his  most  important 
book,  the  Commentary  on  Chronicles,  in  the  Interna- 
tional Series,  should  have  been  finished  before  his 
strength   failed,   but   it   was   not  mere   good   fortune. 


56  BIOGRAPHIES 

This  fine  piece  of  critical  exegesis,  the  fruit  of  many 
years  of  study,  was  put  into  final  form  by  him  after 
his  health  had  seriously  declined,  while  he  was  under 
the  heavy  pressure  of  other  duties  and,  I  think,  with 
the  shadow  of  the  end  already  visible.  There  is  a  sober 
heroism  here. 

Curtis  had  in  him  also  a  vein  of  practical  judgment 
which  made  him  efficient  as  an  executive,  and  his 
colleagues  in  the  Divinity  School  recognized  this  some 
five  years  ago  by  selecting  him  to  act  as  dean.  His 
modesty  led  him  to  refuse  the  formal  title  and  he 
appears  in  the  catalogue  only  as  acting  dean. 

This  was  a  quiet  life,  freed  from  the  intensity  of 
the  struggle  and  remote  also  from  the  rewards  which 
men  usually  desire.  Its  reward  is  in  the  recognition 
and  the  intelligent  appreciation  of  colleagues  and 
pupils  and  friends  and  classmates. 

E.  P.  Morris. 


Thomas  DeWitt  Cuyler 

Counsellor  and  Attorney  at  Law 

Residence — Haverford,  Pa. 

Business  address — Arcade  Building,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Born  September  28,  1854,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  the  son  of 
Theodore  and  Mary  DeWitt  Cuyler. 

He  was  married  May  3,  1881,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  to  Miss 
Frances  Lewis,  daughter  of  John  T.  Lewis  of  Philadelphia.  They 
have  four  children: 

Mary  DeWitt,  born  March  3,  1882. 

Frances  Lewis,  born  August  10,  1883. 

Helen  Scott,  born  December  28,  1887. 

Eleanor  DeGraff,  born  May  7,  1898. 


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57 


THOMAS  DEWITT  CUYLER 


After  graduation,  Cuyler  read  law  with  his  father, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1876.  Born  in  Phila- 
delphia and  living  there,  or  in  the  immediate  vicinity, 
at  Haver  ford,  his  entire  life,  he  has  pursued  the  practice 
of  his  profession  since  his  admission  to  the  bar.  While 
he  has  been  active  in  his  professional  work,  his  duties 
and  engagements  have  been  varied  and  responsible. 
In  his  earlier  life,  he  became  connected  with  the  military 
organization  of  the  State  and  was  for  years  active  in  the 
service  of  the  First  City  Troop  of  Philadelphia,  and 
finally  became  judge  advocate  general  of  the  State. 

In  1899,  he  became  a  director  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Railroad  Company  and  later  on  he  was  elected  a  direc- 
tor and  member  of  the  executive  committee  in  the 
following  railroads:  Long  Island  Railroad  Company; 
Atchison,    Topeka   &    Santa   Fe   Railway   Company; 


58  BIOGRAPHIES 

New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad  Com- 
pany, and  various  subsidiary  lines  in  association  with 
these  systems. 

Cuyler  is  also  a  director  in  the  following  financial 
institutions:  Commercial  Trust  Company;  Girard 
Trust  Company;  Pennsylvania  Company  for  Insur- 
ances on  Lives  and  Granting  Annuities;  Franklin 
National  Bank  and  Philadelphia  Saving  Fund  Society. 
Of  the  Commercial  Trust  Company,  he  subsequently 
became,  and  now  is,  its  president. 

In  addition  to  these  local  connections,  he  is  a  director 
in  the  Equitable  Life  Assurance  Society  of  the  United 
States;  Mercantile  Trust  Company;  United  States 
Mortgage  and  Trust  Company;  Guaranty  Trust  Com- 
pany; Metropolitan  Trust  Company;  Bankers  Trust 
Company;  Audit  Company  and  Equitable  Trust 
Company,  of  the  City  of  New  York. 

He  is  connected  with  various  philanthropic,  educa- 
tional and  charitable  institutions,  both  in  Philadelphia 
and  New  York,  notably  the  American  Museum  of 
Natural  History,  Pennsylvania  Institution  for  the 
Deaf  and  Dumb,  the  Philadelphia  Zoological  Society, 
and  is  a  commissioner  of  Fairmount  Park. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  following  clubs :  Rittenhouse, 
Philadelphia,  Racquet,  Merion  Cricket  and  Phila- 
delphia Country,  all  of  Philadelphia,  or  its  vicinity;  of 
the  Order  of  the  Cincinnati  and  of  the  Holland  Society 
of  New  York;  of  the  Union,  University,  Century, 
Lawyers  and  Yale  clubs  of  New  York  City.  He 
represents  the  Philadelphia  Yale  Alumni  Association 
in  the  Alumni  Advisory  Board  of  Yale.  He  spent  the 
winter  of  1910-11  in  Egypt. 


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59 


*Clark  Dewing 

Died  1895 

Born  March  4,  1853,  in  Rocky  Hill,  Hartford  County,  Conn.,  the 
son  of  Hiram  and  Susan  (Burkett)  Dewing. 

He  entered  with  the  Class  of  '73,  and  remained  with  them  until 
the  third  term  of  their  Senior  year.  In  January,  1874,  he  joined 
the  Class  of  '74  but  did  not  receive  his  degree  until  1875. 

He  was  married  October  12,  1875,  to  Miss  Catharine  Haven 
Fleming  (died  in  Stamford, 
Conn.,  May  16,  1893),  daugh- 
ter of  Frederick  N.  Fleming 
of  Stamford.  They  had  one 
son: 

Hiram  Edwin,  born  August 
15,  1876. 

Dewing  entered  busi- 
ness in  1874,  first  as  a 
stockbroker  in  partner- 
ship with  Henry  Hooper 
and  afterwards  with  his 
father.  After  the  death 
of  his  wife  in  1893,  his 
own  health  failed,  and 
early  in  1895  he  went  to 
Palm  Beach,  Fla.,  for  re- 
lief. His  father  brought 
him,  on  his  return  jour- 
ney, as  far  as  St.  Augustine,  where  his  death  from 
consumption  occurred  on  March  14,  1895,  at  the  age 
of  forty-two. 


CLARK    DEWING 


60  BIOGRAPHIES 

*George  Lewis  Dickerman 

Died   1909 

Born  April  12,  1852,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Charles 
and  Jane  (Foote)  Dickerman. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New 
Haven. 

He  was  married  October  14,  1885,  in  Wilkes  Earre,  Pa.,  to  Miss 
Elizabeth  Shoemaker,  daughter  of  Lazarus  Denison  Shoemaker, 
Yale  '40,  and  Esther  (Wadhams)  Shoemaker.  They  had  no 
children. 

After  graduation  from  college  Dickerman  entered 
the  Columbia  Law  School,  receiving  the  degree  of 
LL.B.  there  in  1876.  Returning  to  New  Haven,  he 
engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession,  giving  his 
attention  mainly  to  the  care  of  estates  and  trust  funds. 
His  office  was  continuously  in  the  White  Building 
next  to  that  of  his  friends,  the  White  brothers.  In 
December,  1884,  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  board 
of  aldermen,  and  held  the  office  for  two  terms  of  two 
years  each,  during  half  of  this  period  being  also 
chairman  of  the  board  of  finance,  but  declined  further 
public  office. 

Since  graduation  he  had  been  Class  Secretary,  and 
had  issued  for  the  Class  three  biographical  records. 
While  busily  engaged  in  preparing  for  the  thirty-fifth 
anniversary  of  the  Class  at  Commencement  he  was 
stricken  with  apoplexy,  of  which  he  died  at  his  home 
a  week  later,  May  30,  1909,  in  his  fifty-eighth  year. 
He  was  in  San  Francisco  at  the  time  of  the  earthquake, 
and  the  shock  and  exposure  incident  to  getting  away 
from  the  city  affected  him  nervously,  and,  in  the 
opinion  of  his  friends,  hastened  his  end. 


GRADUATES 


61 


GEORGE    LEWIS    DICKERMAN 


In  Memoriam 

When  the  Class  gathered  for  its  reunion  in  1909  the 
hearts  of  many  of  the  classmates  were  saddened  because 
they  missed  the  cheery  greeting  and  firm  hand  clasp 
of  our  Secretary.  The  pleasures  of  our  meeting  were 
lessened,  for  while  the  programme  which  his  mind 
had  formulated  was  carried  out  minutely,  we  realized 
that  the  originator  of  the  plans,  having  given  the 
instructions,  had  passed  out  of  our  visible  presence. 

I  feel  myself  constrained  as  I  sit  down,  at  Farnam's 
request,  to  write  the  story  of  Dickerman's  life  since 
graduation.  The  concise  details  which  he  gave  of 
himself  in  his  three  published  reports  were  so  charac- 
teristic of  his  modesty  and  unobtrusiveness  that  the 
influence  of  his  restraining  hand  seems  touching  me 


62  BIOGRAPHIES 

as  I  set  forth  the  simple  annals  of  his  quiet  life. 
After  graduation  he  studied  law  at  Columbia  and  in 
the  office  of  Benjamin  Silliman,  a  member  of  the  New 
York  Bar,  where,  as  he  often  said,  he  learned  more 
than  legal  knowledge,  for  Silliman  taught  him  the 
ethics  of  the  profession  and  gave  him  an  example  of 
honesty  and  loyalty  to  his  clients'  best  human  interests 
which  he  ever  endeavored  to  keep  in  mind  in  his  dealings 
with  his  own  clients. 

Returning  to  New  Haven  in  1876,  he  was  with 
Talcott  H.  Russell  (Yale  '69)  for  several  years  and 
later  shared  an  office  with  his  classmate  Gunn.  Depre- 
ciating his  own  powers  as  a  pleader,  he  soon  abstained 
from  appearance  in  the  courts  and  confined  himself  to 
office  practice.  The  particular  care  with  which  he 
carried  out  every  case  intrusted  to  him,  the  clearness 
of  his  advice  and  his  scrupulous  honesty,  steadily  won 
him  the  trust  of  his  clients  and  through  their  com- 
mendation he  kept  adding  to  the  volume  of  his  business. 
As  the  years  went  by  more  and  more  there  was  placed 
in  his  hands  the  management  of  estates,  which  were 
carefully  administered  for  the  sole  interests  of  the 
beneficiaries,  usually  widows  and  orphans.  And  his 
dealings  with  the  tenants  of  these  brought  him  into 
close  relations  with  people  of  small  means  who  so 
absolutely  trusted  him  that  they  brought  their  cares 
and  troubles  to  him  for  adjustment.  Much  of  this 
work  for  these  women  was  done  without  any  compen- 
sation and  his  aim  seemed  to  be  rather  to  have  justice 
done  than  to  take  advantage  of  any  legal  quibbles. 
He  was  extremely  painstaking  in  having  them  under- 
stand clearly  the  real  crux  of  a  situation.  So  careful 
of  their  interests  was  he  that  whenever  he  was  called 


GRADUATES  63 


away  from  New  Haven  for  a  few  weeks  he  tabulated 
accurately  his  list  of  wills,  the  details  of  management, 
and  other  matters  that  might  arise,  ready  for  any 
successor  to  take  in  hand. 

In  1884  he  took  his  sole  dip  into  politics  and  while  he 
filled  with  credit  his  position  as  alderman  for  four 
years  and  served  as  president  of  the  City's  Board  of 
Finance,  he  did  not  take  kindly  to  the  political  exactions 
connected  with  his  duties  and  henceforth  devoted  his 
time  wholly  to  his  vocation. 

He  lived  quietly  at  his  father's  house  on  Howe 
Street,  where  so  many  of  us  were  hospitably  enter- 
tained during  our  college  days,  until  his  marriage  in 
1885  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Shoemaker  of  Wilkes  Barre, 
Pa.,  and  then  established  a  home  of  his  own,  first  on 
Howe  Street  and  then  on  Temple  Street.  This  latter 
place  gave  him  the  opportunity  to  gratify  his  delight 
in  beautiful  old  furniture;  for  with  the  aid  of  Hotch- 
kiss,  the  Yale  guardian,  he  gathered  many  a  fine  old 
piece  of  colonial  fame  from  New  England  and  along 
with  his  wife  produced  a  homelike  atmosphere  of 
hospitality  which  many  of  us  have  ofttimes  appreciated. 

His  devotion  to  work  kept  him  tied  to  New  Haven, 
but  regularly  with  his  wife  and  sister  when  the  sum- 
mer heat  came  round  he  would  flit  for  a  month  or  two 
to  Seal  Harbor,  Maine,  where  he  regained  strength  and 
vigor  through  his  favorite  pastimes,  sailing  and  golf. 

His  close  attention  to  affairs  and  the  anxiety  pro- 
duced by  sickness  and  death  in  his  family  affected  his 
health  to  such  an  extent  that  in  1906  he  started  on 
a  long  deferred  journey  to  the  Pacific  Coast.  Unfor- 
tunately he  reached  San  Francisco  to  be  there  during 
the  time  of  the  earthquake,  and  the  bitter  experience 


64  BIOGRAPHIES 

which  he  had  to  undergo  and  his  trials  in  conveying 
a  party  from  the  hotel  to  the  government  reservation 
shattered  his  constitution  to  such  an  extent  that  he  did 
not  regain  his  vigor.  Returning  to  New  Haven  that 
fall  he  made  a  brave  fight  to  recuperate  but  his  health 
steadily  declined  until  his  death  in  May,  1909. 

The  same  care  he  gave  to  his  business  he  gave  to  the 
secretarial  work.  He  delighted  in  the  fugitive  calls 
which  his  classmates,  whenever  returning  to  the  college, 
made  to  his  office;  he  kept  on  record  every  detail  he 
could  glean  of  their  lives.  He  was  unstinting  of 
the  time  he  gave  to  the  preparation  of  records  and  the 
arrangements  to  be  made  for  the  various  reunions,  and 
he  made  his  guests  whom  he  entertained  at  those  times 
enjoy  thoroughly  his  home  hospitality. 

Modest,  unobtrusive,  painstaking,  he  lived  his  life, 
and  his  various  clients  and  friends  bear  staunch  tribute 
to  the  honesty,  probity  and  justice  of  his  dealings  with 
them. 

D.  A.  Kennedy. 

George  Edward  Dimock 

Broker,  retired 
Residence — 907  North  Broad  Street,  Elizabeth,  N.  J. 
Business  address — 2  Wall  Street,  New  York  City- 
Born  March  10,  1854,  in  Baldwinsville,  Mass.,  the  son  of  Anthony 
V.  and  Susan  Weston  Dimock. 
He  prepared  at  Elizabeth,  N.  J. 

He  was  married  July  5,  1881,  in  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  to  Miss 
Elizabeth  Jordan,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Edward  Jordan,  solicitor 
of  the  United  States  Treasury,  a  resident  of  Washington,  D.  C, 
and  later  of  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  where  he  died  in  1899.  They  have 
four  children: 


GRADUATES 


65 


GEORGE    EDWARD    DIMOCK 

Elizabeth  Ricker,  Vassar  '04,  born  January    14,   1883,  married 
June  12,  1909,  to  Edgar  Albert  Knapp  of  Elizabeth. 
Mary  Jordan,  Vassar  '06,  born  July  12,  1886. 
Edward  Jordan,  Yale  '11,  born  January  4,  1890. 
George  Edward,  Jr.,  Yale  '12,  born  October  17,  1891. 


Concerning  his  life  Dimock  wrote  in  1910: 
"My  residence  has  been  continuously  in  Elizabeth, 
N.  J.,  to  which  place  I  was  brought  in  early  childhood. 
On  graduating  I  attempted  to  combine  Wall  Street 
business  for  a  living,  in  the  mornings,  with  the  study 
of  medicine  for  a  profession  at  the  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons  in  the  afternoons  and  evenings. 
After  three  years  the  call  of  business  seemed  imperative 
and  since  1877  I  have  devoted  myself  actively  and 
exclusively  to  the  business  life  of  a  Wall  Street  broker. 


66  BIOGRAPHIES 

A  legend  of  the  Street  is  that  any  one  who  looks  back 
will  die  of  remorse,  but  I  can  say  that  my  business 
life  has  been  most  happy,  and  I  believe  that  with  my 
experience  as  a  member  of  the  Class  of  '74  and  with  my 
long  connection  with  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange, 
I  view  life  as  broadly  as  if  I  had  been  trained  in  a 
profession. 

"I  was  early  made  an  officer  in  my  home  church  and 
I  have  been  much  honored  with  official  positions  in 
religious,  charitable  and  educational  organizations. 
My  most  interesting  connections  are  with  the  Pingry 
School  of  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  and  with  Vassar  College. 
At  Vassar  I  have  an  opportunity  for  real  work  as  a 
member  of  its  executive  committee. 

"I  have  taken  no  part  in  politics.  I  have  received 
no  degrees  since  graduation.  As  I  live  practically  in 
New  York  I  have  joined  many  clubs  and  societies,  here 
also  the  most  interesting  to  me  being  educational. 

"Without  being  a  great  traveler  I  find  in  replying 
to  the  travel  question  that  I  have  been  pretty  well  over 
our  own  country,  having  crossed  the  continent  by  each 
one  of  the  great  routes  from  the  mouth  of  the  St. 
Lawrence  to  John  Brady's  home  in  Alaska,  and  with 
my  family  I  have  seen  the  Pacific  Coast  from  Seattle 
to  Santa  Catalina  and  have  gone  some  distance  into 
Mexico.  I  have  visited  London  and  Paris  and,  in 
search  of  health,  I  have  spent  a  season  in  the  south  of 
France  and  among  the  Italian  Lakes.  I  feel  still  better 
acquainted  with  Rome  and  Florence  and  the  Italian 
Riviera,  for,  in  addition  to  two  visits  of  my  own,  I  corre- 
sponded with  my  son,  who  spent  a  winter  in  Rome  and 
Athens,  and  with  my  two  daughters,  who  spent  last 
winter  in  Italy. 


GRADUATES  67 


"My  chief  desire  at  present  is  to  be  a  real  partner 
in  the  active  family  which  is  my  pride.  I  seem  to  be 
living  my  college  life  over  again  on  a  higher  plane  in 
the  experiences  of  my  two  boys  at  Yale.  A  great 
interest  has  always  been  the  collecting  of  books,  and  I 
derive  great  satisfaction  from  the  contemplation  of  my 
library,  which,  while  not  notable,  contains  something  of 
interest  for  every  book-lover.  A  pleasant  recreation 
is  burning  cord  wood  in  the  big  fireplace  in  my  summer 
home  in  Sullivan  County,  N.  Y.,  and  in  trying  to 
follow  Professor  Graves'  suggestion  to  keep  the  fire  in 
the  fireplace  and  out  of  the  forest.  A  very  great 
pleasure  has  been  to  follow  suggestions  of  Professor 
Morris  as  to  how  I  could  be  of  some  use  to  the 
graduate  department  at  Yale." 

Dimock  is  a  member  of  the  following:  The  New 
York  Academy  of  Sciences ;  the  Metropolitan  Museum 
of  Art;  the  American  Folk  Lore  Society;  the  National 
Geographic  Society;  the  Horticultural  Society  of  New 
York ;  the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society ;  the  Grolier 
Club ;  the  American  Museum  of  Natural  History ;  the 
American  Anthropology  Association;  the  American 
Geographical  Society;  the  American  Forestry  Associ- 
ation; the  New  York  Botanical  Garden;  the  Quill 
Club,  and  the  Yale  Club. 

The  Class  Secretary  may  be  permitted  to  add  to 
Dimock's  biography  that  for  some  ten  or  a  dozen  years 
he  has  been  in  the  habit  of  making  liberal  contributions 
to  the  libraries  and  work  of  the  various  departments 
of  the  Yale  Graduate  School,  and  financed  the  bicen- 
tennial publications  at  an  expense  of  some  $15,000. 
He  has  thus  contributed  most  effectively  and  unosten- 
tatiously toward  promoting  the  higher  scholarship  of 
the  University. 


68 


BIOGRAPHIES 


*  Arthur  Murray  Dodge 

Died  1896 

Born  October  29,  1852,  in  New  York  City,  the  son  of  William 
Earl  and  Melissa  (Phelps)  Dodge. 

He  prepared  for  college 
with  a  private  tutor  in  New 
York  City. 

He  was  married  October  9, 
1875,  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  to 
Miss  Josephine  Marshall  Jew- 
ell, daughter  of  Hon.  Marshall 
Jewell.     They  had  five  sons: 

Marshall  Jewell,  Yale  '98, 
born  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  Au- 
gust 27,  1876. 

Murray  Witherbee,  Yale 
'99,  born  in  New  York  City, 
April  30,  1878. 

Arthur  Douglas,  Yale  '03, 
born  in  New  York  City,  Au- 
gust 30,  1879. 

Pliny  Jewell,  born  Septem- 
ber 16,  1885,  died  January  12, 
1889. 

Geoffrey,  Yale  '09,  born  in 
New  York  City,  October  8, 
1886. 


ARTHUR    MURRAY    DODGE 


After  graduation  Dodge  spent  a  few  months  in 
foreign  travel.  In  March,  1875,  he  became  associated 
with  the  lumber  firm  of  Dodge,  Meigs  &  Company,  of 
New  York  City,  later  becoming  a  member  of  the  firm, 
a  position  which  he  retained  until  his  death. 

After  nearly  a  year  of  ill  health  he  died  at  his  country 
home  in  Simsbury,  Conn.,  on  October  17,  1896,  at  the 
age  of  forty-four. 


GRADUATES 


69 


*George  Fingland  Doughty 

Died  1882 

Born  October  14,  1852,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  the  son  of  George  E. 
and  Louisa  F.  Doughty. 

He  prepared  at  the  Woodward  High  School,  Cincinnati,  and  was 
with  the  Class  but  three  years,  having  been  absent  on  leave  during 
Junior  year. 

He  was  unmarried. 

Doughty  returned  home  after  graduation  with  the 
purpose  of  devoting  himself  to  a  literary  life ;  but  in  the 
meantime  thought  it  best 
to  learn  some  mercantile 
business,  and  went  into 
the  employ  of  Stribley  & 
Company,  manufacturers 
of  shoes  in  Cincinnati. 
About  1879  he  took  the 
position  of  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  a  company 
organized  in  the  same  city 
for  supplying  naphtha 
lights.  In  this  position 
he  manifested  untiring 
energy  and  extraordinary 
executive  ability,  so  that 
when  in  1880  the 
Southern  Railway,  run- 
ning from  Cincinnati 
to    Chattanooga,    was 

offered  for  lease,  he  was  able  to  form  a  company  for 
taking  the  lease.  Though  the  bid  offered  by  his  com- 
pany was  not  the  successful  one,  the  financial  power 


GEORGE    FINGLAND    DOUGHTY 


70  BIOGRAPHIES 

which  he  had  shown  was  duly  appreciated,  and  he  was 
offered  the  position  of  secretary  of  the  new  corporation. 
This  position  he  held  with  increasing  credit  until  his 
sudden  death,  resulting  from  diphtheria,  in  Cincinnati, 
May  25,  1882,  in  his  thirtieth  year. 


Jacob  Abramse  Robertson  Dunning 

Real  Estate  and  Insurance 

Residence — 97  Heywood  Avenue,  Orange,  N.  J. 

Business  address — 141  Broadway,  New  York  City 

Born  July  1,  1854,  in  New  York  City,  the  son  of  William  Henry 
and  Eliza  Bogardus  Dunning. 

He  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

He  was  married  October  11,  1888,  in  Orange,  N.  J.,  to  Miss 
Florence  Hoag,  a  graduate  of  the  Dearborn-Morgan  School,  daugh- 


JACOB    ABRAMSE    ROBERTSON    DUNNING 


GRADUATES  71 


ter   of   Francis   M.   Hoag   of   New   York   City.     They   have   three 
children : 

Margaret  B.,  born  in  New  York  City,  December  31,  1891. 

C.  Agnes,  born  in  New  York  City,  January  2,   1894. 

Archibald  Robertson,  born  in  Orange,  N.   J.,  in   1908. 

Dunning  writes: 

"Lived  in  New  York  City  until  1900  and  since  then 
in  Orange,  X.  J.  Shortly  after  graduation  I  was  in 
the  importing  dry  goods  business,  then  in  the  dry  goods 
commission  business.  Since  1886  have  pursued  my 
present  occupation  and  have  been  in  business  for  myself 
and  without  partners  since  1880. 

"I  am  or  have  been  a  member  of  the  University  Club, 
Yale  Club,  New  York  Athletic  Club,  Seventh  Regi- 
ment, Orange  Club,  Essex  County  Country  Club, 
and  others.  I  was  a  non-commissioned  officer  in  the 
Seventh  Regiment  of  New  York  and  served  some  ten 
years  or  more.  I  have  traveled  abroad  and  am  glad 
to  be  at  home." 


*Thomas  Grier  Evans 

Died  1905 

Born  October  22,  1852,  in  Kingston,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  James 
Sidney  and  Mary  (DeWitt)  Evans. 

He  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,   Mass. 

He  was  married  June  6,  1899,  to  Mrs.  Elida  Woodhull  Van 
Hoevenberg,  widow  of  James  Dumond  Van  Hoevenberg,  and 
daughter  of  Joseph  Miller  and  Adeline  Anna  (Hallock)  Woodhull. 
They  had  no  children. 

After  graduation  Evans  entered  the  Columbia  Law 
School,  receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  May,  1876, 
and  then  studied  in  the  office  of  Hon.   Clarence  A. 


72 


BIOGRAPHIES 


Seward.  In  September  of  that  year  he  began  the 
practice  of  his  profession  and  steadily  continued  the 
same  until  the  year  of  his  death,  making  a  specialty  of 
real   estate   law.      He  was   an   extensive   collector   of 

valuable  books  and  manu- 
scripts, principally  on 
historical  and  literary  sub- 
jects,  and  was  secretary 
of  the  Grolier  Club.  He 
became  greatly  interested 
in  genealogical  matters, 
and  since  1884  has  been 
a  member  of  the  New 
York  Genealogical  and 
Biographical  Society,  of 
which  he  was  president 
the  last  five  years  of  his 
life.  He  was  editor  of 
the  Record  of  the  Society 
for  many  years,  and  sub- 
sequently on  the  publica- 
tion committee.  He 
wrote  a  history  of  the  DeWitt  family  of  Ulster  County, 
which  was  printed  in  the  Record.  Since  1899  he  had 
resided  in  New  Brighton,  Staten  Island,  N.  Y.,  where 
he  was  a  trustee  and  treasurer  of  the  Staten  Island 
Academy  and  Latin  School,  and  trustee  of  the  Staten 
Island  Club.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church. 

He  died  of  endocarditis  at  his  home,  March  28,  1905, 
in  his  fifty-third  year. 


THOMAS    GRIER    EVANS 


GRADUATES  73 


Henry  Walcott  Farnam 

Professor  of  Economics,  Yale  University 
Address — New  Haven,  Conn. 

Born  November  6,  1853,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  the  son  of 
Henry  and  Ann  Sophia  (Whitman)  Farnam. 

He  spent  four  years  in  preparatory  study  in  Germany  at  Heidel- 
berg and  Weimar,  and  his  last  year  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School,  New  Haven. 

He  was  married  June  26,  1890,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  to  Miss 
Elizabeth  Upham  Kingsley,  daughter  of  William  L.  Kingsley  of 
New  Haven.     They  have  had  five  children: 

Louise  Whitman,  Vassar  '12,  born  September   11,   1891. 

Katharine  Kingsley,  born  May  17,  1893. 

Henry  Walcott,  Jr.,  born  May  12,  1894. 

A  son,  who  died  a  few  days  after  birth,  born  October  1,   1896. 

A  daughter,  who  died  a  few  days  after  birth,  born  June  29,  1901. 

He  has  written  the  following  sketch: 

"My  first  year  after  graduation  was  spent  at  Yale, 
where  I  qualified  for  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts. 
I  then  went  to  Germany,  studying  in  the  universities 
of  Berlin,  Gottingen,  and  Strassburg,  and  returned  in 
1878  with  the  degree  of  R.P.D.,  which  I  obtained, 
magna  cum  laude,  in  Strassburg.  I  had  already  been 
appointed  tutor  and  went  through  this  apprenticeship 
from  1878  to  1880,  generously  sharing  the  small  stock 
of  Latin  which  I  possessed  with  the  classes  of  1881, 
1882,  and  1883.  In  1880,  I  was  appointed  university 
professor  of  political  economy  and  in  1881  I  was 
appointed  to  the  professorship  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School  left  vacant  when  General  Francis  A.  Walker 
was  called  to  the  presidency  of  the  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology.  I  retained  this  chair  until 
1903,  teaching  economics,   history,   constitutional  law 


74  BIOGRAPHIES 

and  international  law.  At  the  same  time,  I  lectured 
in  the  Graduate  Department  and  cooperated  in  1887 
with  Professor  Sumner,  Professor  Hadley,  and  others 
in  developing  the  courses  of  graduate  study  in  economics 
and  public  law. 

"I  need  hardly  say  that  my  work  for  Yale  has  not 
been  confined  to  teaching.  Of  the  many  other  activities 
which  demanded  my  attention,  mention  will  be  made 
here  only  of  the  campaign  for  the  preservation  and 
restoration  of  Old  South  Middle  in  1904-05.  There 
were  decided  differences  of  opinion  among  the  gradu- 
ates of  the  university  about  the  wisdom  of  this  move 
at  the  time,  but  it  has  been  a  satisfaction  to  me  to  feel 
that  very  few  would  now  like  to  see  the  building  torn 
down,  and  its  utility,  both  for  dormitory  purposes  and 
for  the  offices  of  the  dean  since  1910,  is  unquestioned. 
In  1903,  I  gave  up  my  position  in  the  Scientific  School 
in  order  to  devote  myself  to  the  Graduate  Department 
and  to  have  more  time  for  research  and  the  many 
extra-academic  duties  which  had  fallen  upon  me. 

"A  few  of  these  should  be  mentioned  in  order  to 
give  this  biography  its  proper  proportions.  For  five 
years,  1882-1887,  I  served  as  chairman  of  the 
Prudential  Committee  of  the  New  Haven  Hospital. 
From  1884  to  1890,  I  was  interested  in  the  New  Haven 
Morning  News,  which  took  an  active  part  in  the 
Cleveland  campaign  of  1884  under  the  editorship  of 
Clarence  Deming,  Yale  '72.  The  presidency  of  this 
company  brought  much  work  and  many  experiences, 
not  all  of  a  pleasant  nature.  The  reform  of  the  civil 
service  appealed  to  me  from  the  beginning  and  I  helped 
to  organize  the  New  Haven  Association  which  was 
formed  in  1881.     This  was  expanded  in  1901,  into  the 


GRADUATES 


75 


HENRY    WALCOTT    FARNAM 


Connecticut  Association,  of  which  I  have  been  the 
president  since  that  time.  I  have  also  been  for  many 
years  a  member  of  the  Council  of  the  National  Civil 
Service  Reform  League.  When  the  new  charter  of 
New  Haven  went  into  effect  in  1898,  I  was  appointed 
chairman  of  the  New  Haven  Civil  Service  Board  and 
held  that  office  until  the  summer  of  1900.  I  have  also 
been  interested  in  the  Organized  Charities,  and  in  New 
Haven's  social  settlement,  known  as  Lowell  House. 
In  1892,  when  Mr.  William  L.  Kingsley's  failing  health 
obliged  him  to  give  up  the  management  of  the  New 
Englander  and  Yale  Review,  I  bought  out  his  interest 
and  organized  a  board  of  editors,  changing  the  title  of 
the  magazine  to  The  Yale  Review  and  limiting  its  scope 
to  history,  economics,  and  public  law.  From  that  time 
until  1911  I  was  chairman  of  the  board  of  editors.     I 


76  BIOGRAPHIES 

was  a  member,  from  1893  to  1905,  of  the  Committee  of 
Fifty  on  the  Liquor  Problem,  and  took  an  active  part 
as  secretary  of  one  of  the  sub-committees  in  preparing 
the  volume  on  the  Economic  Aspects  of  the  Liquor 
Problem.  In  1907  I  was  appointed  president  of  the 
American  Association  for  Labor  Legislation,  which  is 
trying  to  promote  greater  care  and  scientific  study 
in  the  enactment  of  labor  laws.  From  1910  to 
1911  I  was  president  of  the  American  Economic 
Association.  A  good  deal  of  my  time  since  1902 
has  been  devoted  to  the  Department  of  Economics 
and  Sociology  of  the  Carnegie  Institution,  especially 
since  the  death  of  Col.  C.  D.  Wright  in  1909, 
when  I  was  asked  to  take  his  place  as  the  chair- 
man of  the  board  of  collaborators.  In  company  with 
my  eleven  colleagues  and  some  150  assistants  I  am 
gathering  materials  for  the  economic  history  of  the 
United  States.  From  1887  to  1910  I  was  a  member 
of  the  State  Commission  of  Sculpture,  serving  until 
1903  as  clerk  and  after  that  date  as  chairman. 

"I  have  always  been  fond  of  travel.  In  1880,  1882, 
1887,  I  made  vacation  trips  abroad,  in  the  latter  year 
taking  a  walking  tour  in  Switzerland  with  A.  T. 
Hadley,  '76,  now  president  of  the  university,  A.  L. 
Ripley,  '78,  now  a  member  of  the  corporation,  and 
J.  B.  Gleason,  '76.  In  1890,  I  started  off  with  my 
bride  on  a  trip  around  the  world,  visiting  Japan,  India, 
Egypt,  Greece,  Italy,  and  other  parts  of  Europe.  In 
1899-1900,  I  spent  another  year  abroad,  partly  for  the 
education  of  the  children,  and  partly  to  get  over  the 
effects  of  over- work.  In  1907  I  again  went  abroad 
with  my  family  for  a  year,  partly  for  the  education  of 
the  children,  partly  to  recover  from  the  indirect  results 


GRADUATES  77 


of  a  railroad  accident  in  which  I  was  injured  in  1905. 
The  greater  part  of  this  year  was  spent  in  Switzerland, 
though  we  also  did  a  little  traveling. 

"In  1911  I  took  my  family  for  a  trip  to  the  far  West. 
We  first  made  the  tour  of  the  Yellowstone  Park  and 
then  left  Seattle  for  Alaska,  June  28,  on  the  steam- 
ship Spokane.  On  the  following  night  at  about 
11  o'clock,  our  steamer,  which  was  passing  through 
Seymour  Narrows  on  a  strong  tide,  was  driven  by  the 
current  against  the  rocks  and  went  down  in  about 
half  an  hour.  Though  two  of  the  passengers  were  lost, 
the  rest  of  us  were  fortunately  able  to  reach  land  by 
means  of  life  preservers  and  life  boats.  We  were 
picked  up  the  next  day  by  the  steamship  Admiral 
Sampson,  and  brought  back  to  Seattle,  where  my 
classmate  Shepard,  and  his  brother  Charles,  of  the 
Class  of  '70,  showed  us  every  attention. 

"My  favorite  means  of  recreation  are  photography, 
riding,  and  farming.  I  have  a  farm  and  piece  of 
woodland  covering  about  370  acres  in  Stockbridge, 
Mass.,  where  I  spend  as  much  as  possible  of  my  sum- 
mers with  my  family.  Of  the  latter,  my  daughter 
Louise  graduated  at  Vassar  in  1912,  Katharine  is  in 
the  Class  of  1914  at  Vassar  and  Henry  is  preparing 
for  college  at  the  Westminster  School,  Simsbury,  Conn. 

"My  clubs  are  the  Century,  University,  Yale,  and 
Reform  clubs  of  New  York;  the  Graduates,  Lawn, 
and  Country  clubs  of  New  Haven;  the  Cosmos  Club 
of  Washington;  and  the  Casino  and  Golf  clubs  of 
Stockbridge. 

"I  have  made  a  number  of  hunting  trips  to  the 
Rocky  Mountains,  the  last  with  my  son  in  the  summer 
of  1909.     My  writings  do  not,  unfortunately,  contain 


78  BIOGRAPHIES 

the  titles  of  any  important  works,  and  it  is  only  to 
conform  to  the  usual  scheme  of  Yale  Class  records  that 
I  have  compiled  this 

Bibliography 
Note: — 

Many  of  my  writings  have  consisted  of  book  reviews,  reports, 
notes  and  comments,  contributed  to  the  Yale  Review,  of  which  I 
was  one  of  the  editors  for  nineteen  years.  During  a  good  part 
of  that  time  I  wrote  most  of  the  Comment  which  appeared 
anonymously  at  the  beginning  of  every  number.  No  book  reviews, 
notes,  or  comments  are  included  in  the  following  list: 

The  philosophy  of  Montaigne.  N.  Englander,  CXXXII,  405- 
418,  1875;  Die  innere  franzosische  Gewerbepolitik  von  Colbert  bis 
Turgot.  Schmoller's  Staats-  und  Socialwissenschaftliche  For- 
schungen,  I,  No.  4,  Leipzig,  Duncker  &  Humblot,  viii  +  85  pp., 
1878;  Die  amerikanischen  Gewerkvereine.  Schriften  des  Vereins 
fur  Socialpolitik,  XVIII,  Leipzig,  Duncker  &  Humblot,  39  pp., 
1879;  The  German  socialist  law  of  October  21st,  1878.  A  paper 
read  at  the  meeting  of  Amer.  Soc.  Sci.  Assoc,  Sept.  9.  Jrl.  Soc. 
Sci.,  XIII,  part  2,  36-53,  1880;  Manual  training  for  boys  in  the 
public  schools.  N.  Englander,  VII,  561-577,  1884;  Die  Reform 
des  Zivildienstes  in  den  Vereinigten  Staaten.  Jahrb.  Gesetzge- 
bung,  V erwaltung  und  Volkswirtschaft  im  Deutschen  Reiche,  VIII, 
23  pp.,  1884;  The  clergy  and  the  labor  question.  Princeton  Rev., 
II,  48-61,  1886;  Progress  and  poverty  in  politics.  N.  Eng.  and 
Yale  Rev.,  CCV,  April,  1887,  335-345;  Report  of  a  committee 
appointed  to  enquire  into  the  advisability  of  establishing  a  town 
workhouse  and  into  the  methods  of  supporting  the  town  poor. 
Presented  at  the  annual  town  meeting,  New  Haven,  Dec.  8,  1887, 
60  pp.;  The  state  and  the  poor.  Pol.  Sci.  Quart.,  Ill,  282-310, 
1888;  Memoir  of  Henry  Farnam.  Privately  printed.  New 
Haven,  1889,  136  pp.  -f-  portrait ;  Some  recent  writings  of  an 
Indian  Rajah,  (anon.)  N.  Eng.  and  Yale  Rev.,  Dec,  1891, 
519-523;  German  tariff  policy,  past  and  present.  Yale  Rev., 
I,  20-34,  1892;  The  bimetallic  theory  in  the  light  of  recent 
history  and  discussion.  Yale  Rev.,  Ill,  Aug.,  1894,  203-222; 
Some    effects    of    falling    prices.       Yale    Rev.,    IV,    Aug.,     1895, 


GRADUATES  79 


183-201;  International  bimetallism.  Yale  Rev.,  V,  Nov., 
1896,  312-315;  The  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  1847-1897. 
(Reprinted  with  additions  from  Yale  Scientific  Monthly,  I,  No.  1, 
Oct.,  1894,  1-9.)  1897,  16  pp.;  Labor  crises  and  their  periods 
in  the  United  States.  Yale  Rev.,  VII,  Aug.,  1898,  180-196; 
Economic  aspects  of  the  liquor  problem.  Report  of  the  Economic 
Sub-Committee  to  the  Committee  of  Fifty.  Printed  as  an  intro- 
duction to  Economic  aspects  of  the  liquor  problem,  by  John  Koren: 
an  investigation  made  for  the  Committee  of  Fifty,  under  Henry  W. 
Farnam,  secretary  of  the  Economic  Sub-Committee.  Houghton- 
Mifflin  &  Co.,  1 899,  39  pp. ;  Economic  aspects  of  the  liquor  problem. 
Atlantic  Monthly,  May,  1899,  644-653;  Historical  sketch  of  the 
Organized  Charities  Association  of  New  Haven.  Twenty-fifth 
Annual  Rept.,  1903,  27-48;  Government  insurance.  Vol.  II, 
283-303  of  Yale  insurance  lectures.  1903-4.  Revised  edition, 
392-412  of  Yale  readings  in  insurance,  1909;  Operation  of  com- 
pulsory workingmen's  insurance  in  Germany.  Vol.  II,  304- 
328  of  Yale  insurance  lectures,  1903-4.  Revised  edition, 
413-436  of  Yale  readings  in  insurance,  1909;  The  psychology  of 
German  workmen's  insurance.  Yale  Rev.,  XIII,  May,  1904,  98-1 13 ; 
Workmen's  insurance  in  Germany — a  postscript.  Yale  Rev.,  XIII, 
Feb.,  1905,  435-438;  The  quantitative  study  of  the  labor  movement. 
Paper  before  the  Am.  Econ.  Assoc.  Annual  meeting,  Baltimore,  Dec. 
27-29,  1905.  Pub.  Am.  Econ.  Ass'n,  Ser.  3,  VII,  No.  1,  1906, 
160-175;  Joseph  Earl  Sheffield,  the  father  of  the  Sheffield  Scien- 
tific School.  Read  October  9,  1901.  Printed  New  Haven  Colony 
Hist.  Soc.  Trans.,  VII,  65-119,  1907;  Deutsch-Amerikanische 
Beziehungen  in  der  Volkswirtschaftslehre,  31  pp.,  in  Die  Entwick- 
lung  der  deutschen  Volkswirtschaftslehre  im  neunzehnten  Jahr- 
hundert.  Gustav  Schmoller  zur  siebenzigsten  Wiederkehr  seines 
Geburtstages,  24  Juni,  1908,  in  Verehrung  dargebracht,  Leipzig, 
1908;  The  Relation  of  State  and  Federal  Legislation  to  the  Child 
Labor  Problem,  Child  Labor  Conference,  Hartford,  Conn.,  Dec. 
4,  1908.  Printed  in  Proceedings  of  the  Conference,  1909,  32-39. 
Reprinted  Twenty-third  Rep.  Conn.  Bur.  Lab.  Stat,  for  the  two 
years  ending  Nov.  30,  1908,  242-249;  The  Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung, 
an  attempt  to  socialize  capital.  Yale  Rev.,  XVIII,  May,  1909, 
63-83;  Some  fundamental  distinctions  in  labor  legislation.  Presi- 
dential address,   Dec.   29,   1908,  annual  meeting  of  the  American 


80  BIOGRAPHIES 

Association  for  Labor  Legislation.  Am.  Econ.  Ass'n  Quart.,  X, 
April,  1909,  105-119;  Gustav  Schmoller  at  seventy.  Yale  Rev., 
XVIII,  Feb.,  1909,  436-8;  Labor  legislation  and  economic  prog- 
ress. Presidential  address  Dec.  28,  1909,  before  the  American 
Association  for  Labor  Legislation.  Am.  Ass'n  for  Labor  Legisla- 
tion, IX,  1910,  37-50;  Carnegie  Institution  of  Washington,  Depart- 
ment of  Economics  and  Sociology.  Annual  report  of  the  director. 
Carnegie  Institution  Year  Booh  for  1909,  71-83;  Carnegie 
Institution  of  Washington,  Department  of  Economics  and  Sociol- 
ogy. Annual  report  of  the  director.  Carnegie  Institution  Year 
Booh,  IX,  1910,  67-74;  William  Graham  Sumner,  the  pioneer. 
Yale  Rev.,  XIX,  May,  1910,  1-4;  Uniformity  in  State  labor  legis- 
lation. Nat.  Civic  Fed.  Rev.,  Ill,  Sept.,  1910,  11  pp.;  Practical 
methods  in  labor  legislation.  Presidential  address,  Dec.  28,  1910, 
before  the  American  Association  for  Labor  Legislation.  Am. 
Labor  Leg.  Rev.,  I,  No.  1,  Jan.,  1911,  5-15;  Economic  principles 
of  labor.  Am.  Year  Booh,  1910,  424-425;  The  good  Samaritan  and 
the  good  citizen.  Presidential  address  at  the  Connecticut  Con- 
ference of  Charities  and  Correction,  New  Haven,  April  4,  1911, 
14  pp.;  Carnegie  Institution  of  Washington,  Department  of 
Economics  and  Sociology.  Annual  report  of  the  director.  Carne- 
gie Institution  Year  Booh,  X,  1911,  69-77;  Bibliography  of  the 
Department  of  Economics  and  Sociology  of  the  Carnegie  Institution 
of  Washington.  Prepared  for  the  Exhibit  of  December,  1911. 
16  pp.;  The  economic  utilization  of  history.  Presidential  address 
at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Economic  Association, 
Washington,  D.  C,  Dec.  27,  1911.  The  Am.  Econ.  Rev.,  II,  No. 
1,  Supplement,  March,  1912,  3-18. 


Walter  Penrose  Fell 

Stock  Broker 

Residence — Riverton,  N.  J. 

Business  address — Care  Fell  &  Nicholson,  Land  Title  Building, 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Born  January  1,  1853,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  the  son  of  Penrose 
and  Mary  Jane  Fell. 


GRADUATES 


81 


He  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
He  was  married  in  1878,  to  Miss  Mary  W.  Moore,  of  Riverton, 
N.  J.,  who  died  July  15,  1891.  Two  children  were  born  to  them: 
Frances  Boyer,  born  in  1878. 
Albert  D.,  born  in  1890,  died 
in  1895. 

Fell  entered  the  office 
of  Fell,  Wray  &  Com- 
pany, bankers  and  bro- 
kers of  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
in  November,  1874,  where 
he  remained  for  several 
years.  He  is  now  a  part- 
ner in  the  firm  of  Fell  & 
Nicholson,  with  offices  in 
the  Land  Title  Building, 
Philadelphia. 

WALTER    PENROSE    FELL 


Frank  Wade  Foster 

Farmer 
Address — Buckhead,  Ga. 

Born  in  Madison,  Ga.,  October  30,  1852,  the  son  of  Albert  G. 
Foster  and  Caroline  (Colbert)  Foster. 

He  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass. 

He  was  married  February  2,  1882,  in  Augusta,  Ga.,  to  Miss 
Mary  C.  Vason,  Madame  Lefebre's  School,  Baltimore,  Md.,  '77,  the 
daughter  of  William  J.  Vason,  a  lawyer  of  Augusta,  Ga.  They 
have  one  daughter: 

Annie,  born  October   23,   1883. 

Foster  gives  the  following  account  of  his  life  since 
graduation : 


82 


BIOGRAPHIES 


"For  the  first  six  months  after  graduating  I  managed 
a  plantation  near  Macon,  in  the  county  of  Bibb,  state 
of  Georgia.      From  January,   1875,  I  was  a  deputy 

collector  of  internal  re- 
venue with  headquarters 
at  Milledgeville,  Ga.,  for 
one  year  and  eight 
months ;  at  Savannah  for 
one  year  and  at  Augusta 
for  three  years.  Septem- 
ber 1,  1880,  I  entered  the 
cotton  commission  busi- 
ness at  Augusta  under 
the  firm  name  of  McCord 
&  Foster.  At  the  expi- 
ration of  three  years 
McCord  retired  and  I 
continued  the  business 
alone  until  April  1,  1887. 
I  then  engaged  in  the 
cotton  compress  busi- 
ness under  the  firm  name  of  Foster  &  Doughty.  In 
the  spring  of  1892  that  firm  was  merged  into  the 
Augusta  Cotton  &  Compress  Company  and  engaged 
in  the  business  of  buying,  selling,  exporting  and  com- 
pressing cotton.  In  January,  1899,  that  firm  or 
corporation  liquidated.  Since  that  time  I  have  resided 
near  Buckhead,  Ga.  For  seven  years  I  was  manager 
of  the  Buckhead  Ginning  &  Milling  Company.  For 
the  past  five  years  I  have  devoted  my  time  exclusively 
to  farming. 

"While  a  resident  of  Augusta  I  was  a  member  and 
for  several  years  president  of  the  Commercial  Club  of 


FRANK    WADE    FOSTER 


GRADUATES 


83 


that  city.  I  was  also  a  member  of  the  city  council  for 
one  term.  Since  our  Class  reunion  in  1884,  I  have 
seen  onty  three  of  my  classmates,  Bussing  and  'Dooney' 
Harris  once  each,  and 
Cam  Waterman  several 
times. 

"I  have  never  been  a 
member  of  a  military 
organization  and  have 
never  aspired  to  author- 
ship. My  travels  are  very 
limited,  and  I  am  only 
familiar  with  that  portion 
of  our  own  country  east 
of  the  Mississippi.  My 
favorite  recreation  is 
hunting.  That  includes 
all  of  the  game  we  have 
about  here,  such  as  quail, 
fox,  duck,  doves,  wild 
turkeys,   and   squirrels, 

and    the    larger    game,    deer    and    bear    in    Southern 
Georgia  and  Florida." 

*William  Foster 

Died  1898 

Born  June  10,  1854,  in  Warren,  R.  I.,  the  son  of  Daniel  and 
Waitte  Abbon  Foster. 

He  received  his  preparation  in  the  Hawaiian  Islands  and  in 
Oakland,  Calif. 

He  was  married  August  4,  1885,  to  Miss  Mary  Winter  (died 
about  1895),  of  Galesburg,  111. 

After  graduation  Foster  studied  in  the  Yale  Law 
School,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1876. 


WILLIAM    FOSTER 


84  BIOGRAPHIES 

In  September  of  that  year  he  settled  in  San  Francisco, 
where  he  practiced  his  profession  until  December,  1881, 
at  first  in  the  office  of  Milton  Andross,  and  later  in 
that  of  Charles  Page,  Yale  '68. 

He  then  returned  to  Honolulu,  where  he  was 
occupied  as  treasurer  of  the  Inter-Island  Steam  Navi- 
gation Company  until  July,  1883.  He  was  then 
appointed  clerk  of  the  supreme  court  of  the  islands, 
and  filled  that  office  until  the  close  of  1888,  when  he 
assumed  the  position  of  judge  of  the  district  and  police 
court  of  Honolulu.  When  the  royal  government,  of 
which  he  was  a  pronounced  adherent,  was  overthrown 
in  1894,  he  removed  to  San  Francisco.  He  found 
employment  there  in  his  profession  and  in  editorial 
work  for  a  law-publishing  firm,  the  Bancroft- Whitney 
Company. 

He  died  in  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  San  Francisco,  from 
a  stroke  of  paralysis,  November  27,  1898,  in  his 
forty-fifth  year. 

Herbert  Greene  Fowler 

1  West  Thirty-fourth  Street,  New  York  City 

Born  August  18,  1850,  in  Stoneham,  Mass.,  the  son  of  Benjamin 
C.  and  Sophia  C.  Fowler. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass. 

After  graduation  he  spent  some  time  in  teaching  at 
Xashua,  N.  H.,  and  at  Norwich,  Conn.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1881. 

In  a  letter  written  in  July,  1910,  Fowler  says: 
"In  1884  I  went  to  the  seal  fisheries  in  Alaska  as 
a  special  representative  for  the  government,  where  I 
remained  one  year.     Upon  my  return  I  engaged  in 
the  real  estate  business. 


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85 


HERBERT    GREENE    FOWLER 


"In  1898  I  retired  from  active  business.  But  took 
it  up  again  about  a  year  ago  in  this  city,  where  I  am 
at  the  present." 


George  Levi  Fox 

Principal  of  the  University  School,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Address — 7  College  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Born  November  16,  1852,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  the  son  of 
Levi  G.  and  Elizabeth  Hamlin  Fox. 

He  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Haven,  and 
was  for  six  weeks  a  member  of  the  Class  of  '73. 

He  is  unmarried. 

Fox  writes: 

"Since  graduation  I  have  spent  all  my  life  in  New 
Haven,  engaged  in  the  work  of  teaching,  which  is  my 
delight.      For    three    years    after    graduation    I    was 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


GEORGE    LEVI    FOX 


engaged  in  private  tutoring,  and  in  December,  1877, 
when  the  Classical  course  was  re-established  in  the 
Hillhouse  High  School,  New  Haven,  I  was  appointed 
teacher  of  Greek  there,  and  remained  in  the  school  as 
chief  teacher  of  the  classics  until  June,  1885,  when  I 
was  appointed  rector  of  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School 
in  New  Haven.  I  continued  in  that  position  until 
July,  1901,  when  I  established  my  own  private  school 
called  the  University  School.  It  is  a  small  tutoring 
school,  devoted  to  the  intensive  method  of  dealing  with 
small  classes  of  pupils.  This  work  has  been  most 
enjoyable  and  I  expect  to  continue  in  this  occupation 
until  I  retire  from  active  work. 

"I  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  Yale  Univer- 
sity in  1879,  and  the  degree  of  M.A.  in  1885.  From 
1896  to  1900  I  was  lecturer  on  comparative  municipal 


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government  in  the  graduate  department  of  Yale 
University.  In  1893  I  gave  a  course  of  twelve  lectures 
before  the  Lowell  Institute  in  Boston,  on  the  Great 
Public  Schools  of  England.  The  general  lecture  of 
this  course  I  have  delivered  nearly  one  hundred  times 
in  different  portions  of  the  United  States,  and  two  or 
three  times  in  England. 

"In  1887  I  visited  Europe  for  the  first  time,  and  since 
then  I  have  made  twenty-one  round  trips  across  the 
Atlantic.  My  fondness  for  European  travel  is  so  great 
that  I  find  it  hard  to  resist  the  Trans- Atlantic  impulse 
when  July  approaches.  A  most  enjoyable  trip  to  Eng- 
land was  in  December,  1909,  when,  on  the  invitation  of 
three  Liberals,  I  went  over  to  assist  the  Liberals  in  the 
famous  Budget  Election  campaign.  This  was  one  of 
the  most  novel  and  interesting  experiences  possible. 
My  especial  mission  was  to  explain  to  English  audi- 
ences that  the  Budget  in  its  land  clauses  was  not 
Socialism  as  the  Tories  claimed,  but  simply  the  Amer- 
ican and  Canadian  systems  of  local  taxation.  I  was 
everywhere  received  with  great  cordiality  by  the 
audiences,  who  seemed  very  glad  to  listen  to  an 
American  who  discussed  the  burning  political  questions 
of  English  politics.  I  delivered  fourteen  speeches  in 
London  and  within  a  hundred  miles  of  the  metropolis, 
while  if  I  had  had  the  strength  and  time  I  could  have 
had  the  opportunity  of  delivering  as  many  more. 

"Again  in  December,  1910,  I  visited  England  and 
took  part  in  the  campaign  against  the  House  of  Lords 
and  in  favor  of  the  veto  resolutions.  My  experience 
this  time  was  even  more  delightful  than  before,  and  in 
the  course  of  both  campaigns  I  made  twenty-four 
political  speeches. 


88  BIOGRAPHIES 

"My  favorite  recreations  are  swimming,  tennis, 
walking  through  the  Alps,  debating,  and  the  study  of 
English  politics,  which  is  to  me  one  of  the  most 
fascinating,  uplifting  and  broadening  occupations  of 
the  mind. 

"In  American  politics  since  1884  I  have  been  a 
consistent  Independent  and  glory  in  the  name  of 
Mugwump. 

"I  was  a  member  of  the  Committee  of  Seven  of  the 
American  Historical  Association  on  the  Teaching  of 
History,  and  besides  sharing  in  the  preparation  of  the 
report,  I  contributed  to  the  appendix  the  article  on  the 
'Teaching  of  History  in  English  Secondary  Schools.' 

"I  belong  to  the  Graduates  Club  of  New  Haven,  the 
New  York  Yale  Club,  the  American  Historical  Asso- 
ciation, the  American  Political  Science  Association,  the 
Connecticut  Civil  Service  Reform  Association,  and 
several  small  educational  organizations." 

Bibliography 

The  Study  of  Politics.  Chicago,  111.,  Pub.  C.  H.  Kerr  &  Co., 
1885;  A  Comparison  between  English  and  American  Secondary 
Schools,  in  Special  Reports  on  Educational  Subjects.  Pub.  by 
the  Board  of  Education  of  Great  Britain.  Vol.  II,  1900.  London, 
England;  The  London  County  Council.  Yale  Rev.,  1893,  New 
Haven,  Conn. ;  The  Defects  of  English  Public  Schools.  Jrl. 
of  Ed.,  London,  Dec,  1893;  The  Municipal  Condition 
of  New  Haven,  Conn.  Proceedings  of  Louisville  Conference  for 
Good  City  Government.  N.  Y.,  Maemillan  &  Co.,  1897; 
The  Teaching  of  History  in  English  Secondary  Schools,  page  210 
in  The  Study  of  History,  Report  of  Committee  of  Seven  of  the 
American  Historical  Association,  N.  Y.,  Maemillan  &  Co., 
1899;  President's  Roosevelt's  Coup  d'  Etat:  The  Panama 
Affair  in  a  Nutshell.  Was  it  Right?  Will  the  Canal  Pay?  New 
Haven,    Conn.,    Pub.    G.    L.    Fox,    1904;     Corrupt    Practices    and 


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Election  Laws  in  the  United  States  since  1890.  Proceedings  of 
the  American  Political  Science  Association  for  1906.  Baltimore, 
Md. ;  The  Panama  Canal  as  a  Business  Venture.  Boston,  1908; 
The  British  Budget  of  1909.  Yale  Rev.,  Feb.,  1910;  The 
British  Election  Address.  Yale  Rev.,  Feb.,  1911;  Exam- 
inations the  best  test  for  admission  to  college.  Yale  Alumni 
Weekly,  April  7,   1911. 


Hollis  Burke  Frissell 

Principal  of  the  Hampton  Normal  and  Agricultural  Institute, 
Hampton,  Va. 

Address — Hampton,  Va. 

Born  July  14,  1851,  in  Amenia,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  A.  C.  and 
L.  B.  Frissell. 

He  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  and  entered 
with  the  Class  of  '73,  with  which  he  remained  for  three  years, 
being  a  member  of  '74  only  through  Senior  year. 

He  was  married  November  8,  1883,  in  Bloomfield,  N.  J.,  to  Miss 
Julia  F.  Dodd,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Amzi  Dodd  of  Bloom- 
field,  judge  of  the  court  of  appeals  and  president  of  the  Mutual 
Benefit  Life  Insurance  Company.     They  have  one  son: 

Sydney  Dodd,  Yale  '08,  born  in  Hampton,  Va.,  March  10,  1885. 

After  graduation  Frissell  taught  for  two  years  in  a 
young  ladies'  seminary  at  Rhinebeck,  N.  Y.,  which 
place  he  left  to  enter  Union  Theological  Seminary  in 
September,  1876.  He  was  graduated  from  the  latter 
school  in  1879  and  became  assistant  pastor  of  a  church 
in  Xew  York  City,  where  he  remained  until  1880.  In 
1880,  he  became  chaplain  of  Hampton  Institute, 
Hampton,  Va.  He  was  elected  to  the  principalship  of 
Hampton  Institute  in  1893,  and  writes: 

"Since  my  last  report  to  the  Class  I  have  pursued  the 
even  tenor  of  my  way  as  principal  of  the  Hampton  Insti- 


90 


BIOGRAPHIES 


HOLLIS    BURKE    FRISSELL 


tute,  with  its  fourteen  hundred  students  and  over  one 
hundred  and  fifty  teachers.  I  have  been  interested  in 
educational  work  outside  of  the  school,  having  become 
a  member  of  the  General  Education  Board,  to  which 
Mr.  Rockefeller  contributed  several  millions,  and  of  the 
Southern  Education  Board,  which  has  helped  to 
increase  the  appropriations  for  education  in  the 
Southern  sjtates  and  to  create  a  general  interest  in  the 
public  schools  throughout  the  South.  I  am  also  a 
member  of  the  Negro  Rural  School  Fund  Board,  other- 
wise known  as  the  Jeanes  Fund  Board,  which  is  com- 
posed of  northern  and  southern  white  and  colored  men 
who  work  together  for  the  improvement  of  the  negro 
schools  in  the  country  districts.  I  am  also  a  member 
of  the  Rockefeller  Sanitary  Commission  for  the  eradica- 
tion of  hookworm  disease.     I  have  been  greatly  inter- 


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ested  in  education  in  the  state  of  Virginia,  having  been  a 
somewhat  active  member  of  the  Cooperative  Education 
Association  of  this  state. 

"My  son,  Sydney  Dodd  Frissell,  who  was  graduated 
from  Yale  in  1908,  has  taken  a  farm  in  Virginia  and 
has  had  charge  of  demonstration  farm  work  under  the 
Government,  with  the  idea  of  showing  what  can  be 
done  in  improving  the  worn  out  soil  of  the  Old 
Dominion.  He  is  at  present  helping  in  the  rather 
difficult  work  of  raising  sufficient  funds  for  the  yearly 
maintenance  of  the  Hampton  School. 

"I  am  entering  upon  the  thirty-third  year  of  my  work 
in  Virginia,  and  have  had  a  most  interesting  and  happy 
life." 

Frissell  received  the  degree  of  D.D.  from  Howard 
University  in  1893;  the  degree  of  S.T.D.  from  Har- 
vard University  in  1900;  the  degree  of  LL.D.  from 
Yale  University  in  1901,  and  the  degree  of  LL.D, 
from  Richmond  College  in  1909.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Century,  City,  and  Yale  clubs  of  New  York,  and 
of  the  Cosmos  Club  of  Washington. 

*Thomas  Williams  Grover 

Died  1893 

Born  November  29,  1846,  in  Nashua,  N.  H.,  the  son  of  Zuinglius 
Grover,  Brown  '42,  and  Mary  (Williams)  Grover. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  the  Chicago  High  School  and  at  the 
Boston  Latin  School. 

He  was  married  November  30,  1881,  to  Miss  Lily  Winston  of 
Chicago,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Frederick  H.  Winston,  late  United 
States  minister  to  Persia.     They  had  three  children: 

Maria  Winston,  born  in  September,  1882;    died  in  March,  1883. 

Margaret  Dudley,  born  in  December,  1883. 

Ruth,  born  in  September,  1886;    died  in  March,  1887. 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


After  graduation  Grover  studied  law  at  Columbia 
College,    receiving    the    degree    of    LL.B.    in    1876. 

The  same  year  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  of 
New  York,  and  in  1877 
to  the  bar  of  Illinois.  He 
taught  almost  continu- 
ously in  Chicago  from 
that  date  until  his  death, 
being  instructor  in  the 
classics  for  most  of  the 
time  in  the  University 
School.  In  this  work  he 
followed  his  father,  who 
had  been  a  teacher  in  the 
Chicago  schools  for  many 
years.  He  died  in  Chi- 
cago from  pneumonia, 
after  a  brief  illness,  No- 
vember 17,  1893,  at  the 
age  of  forty-seven. 


THOMAS    WILLIAMS    GROVER 


George  Miles  Gunn 

Lawyer 

Residence — Milford,  Conn. 

Business  address — 179  Church  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Born  August  10,  1851,  in  Milford,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Samuel  B. 
and  Caroline  E.  Gunn. 

He  prepared  at  the  Collegiate  and  Commercial  Institute,  New 
Haven,  Conn. 

He  was  married  October  25,  1882,  in  Milford,  Conn.,  to  Miss 
Harriet  C.  Fowler,  daughter  of  John  W.  Fowler,  a  business  man 
of  Milford,  Conn.     They  have  had  two  children: 

Jasper,  born  October  29,  1883,  died  at  birth. 

Marjorie,  born  January  13,  1885. 


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93 


GEORGE    MILES    GUNN 


Gunn  writes: 

"After  graduation  in  1874  the  bread  and  butter  ques- 
tion presented  itself  and  I  betook  myself  to  that  path 
of  roses  and  emolument  known  now-a-days  as  pedagogy 
but  then  called  school-teaching,  accepting  a  position 
(notice  the  expression)  in  the  Episcopal  Academy  of 
Connecticut.  To  tell  the  truth,  I  was  blessed  glad  to  get 
it.  There  I  remained  three  years  with  great  benefit 
to  myself,  for  I  was  obliged  to  learn  the  things  I  hadn't 
succeeded  in  doing  in  college,  and  at  the  end  of  that 
time  had  a  fairly  decent  knowledge  of  Latin,  Greek 
and  human  nature.  The  principal  of  the  school  had 
lost  the  sight  of  one  eye,  and  I  found  it  easy  by  getting 
on  his  blind  side  to  get  by  with  my  store  of  ignorance. 
Meantime  I  studied  law  and  by  taking  examinations 
was  enabled  to  graduate  at  the  Yale  Law  School  in 


94  BIOGRAPHIES 

1878,  receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  At  that  time  I 
knew  more  law  than  IVe  ever  felt  I  knew  since  and 
altogether  was  a  bigger  man  in  my  own  opinion  than 
later  years  have  justified  me  in  thinking  myself. 

"I  became  interested  in  politics  in  1880  and  became 
a  member  of  the  Connecticut  General  Assembly, 
repeating  that  experience  a  number  of  times  since, 
having  been  a  member  of  the  lower  body  for  eight  years 
and  of  the  upper  for  two  years.  I  have  served  as 
state  auditor  for  two  terms,  was  prosecuting  attorney 
of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  for  fourteen  years,  and 
served  as  Judge  of  Probate  in  the  District  of  Milford 
for  eight  years. 

"I  have  been  interested  in  educational  matters  in  my 
own  town,  serving  as  president  of  the  Board  of  Educa- 
tion there.  I  am  president  of  the  Milford  Savings 
Bank  and  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  a 
National  Bank  in  New  Haven.  In  1896  I  was  a 
member  of  the  convention  at  Indianapolis  which 
nominated  Palmer  and  Buckner,  and  stumped  the  state 
of  Connecticut  for  them.  Since  that  date  I  have,  I 
need  hardly  say,  had  very  little  outlook  in  politics,  and 
it  has  been  a  mighty  good  thing  for  me.  I  have  sat 
by  the  wayside  and  watched  the  procession  with  a  great 
deal  of  amusement  to  myself,  and  admired  the  grace 
and  agility  with  which  my  Republican  friends  have 
adopted  the  doctrines  of  Mr.  Bryan  and  scooped  the 
offices.  It  has  been  a  fine  game  to  watch  and  my  work 
meantime  in  my  profession  has  been  to  my  taste.  I 
have  not  yet  attained  the  proud  position  where  people 
employ  me  so  that  the  other  fellow  can't  get  me,  but 
I  have  my  share  of  business,  and  it  has  afforded  me  an 
income  sufficient,  with  my  simple  tastes,  to  provide  for 


GRADUATES  95 


my  immediate  needs,  and  those  who  are  near  and  dear 
to  me  have  not  suffered  as  yet  for  bread  and  butter 
with  an  occasional  taste  of  treacle  to  accompany  it. 

"I  am  a  member  of  several  clubs;  the  Quinnipiack, 
Graduates,  and  Country  clubs  of  New  Haven,  a  social 
club  in  Milford,  the  Metabetchouan  Fishing  Club  in 
Canada,  and  the  Hammonasset  Fishing  Club  in 
Connecticut.  I  try  to  play  golf.  Some  of  my  class- 
mates tell  me  they  do  play  it,  but  I  have  never  reached 
this  high  state.  Looking  it  all  over,  I  find  that  I  am 
about  the  same  kind  of  man  as  I  was  a  boy  in  college,  not 
much  to  brag  about.  Sincere  I  hope,  and  loyal  in  my 
friendships,  not  willing  to  sacrifice  my  opinions,  how- 
ever foolish,  to  attain  my  ends,  and  so  perhaps  a  little 
stubborn. 

"I  guess  that  I  have  had  all  and  more  than  I  deserve 
in  life.  There  is  no  classmate  of  whose  successes  I  am 
not  proud,  and  none  of  them  have  met  with  loss  or 
failure  with  whom  I  do  not  feel  sympathy.  I  can  pray 
with  the  pious,  eat  with  the  hungry,  and  drink  with  the 
thirsty,  and  will  at  any  and  all  times  be  glad  to  do 
either  with  any  member  of  the  Class  of  '74  who  will 
look  me  up." 

Gunn  was  elected  president  of  the  National 
Tradesmen's  Bank  of  New  Haven  in  1911. 

William  Stewart  Halsted 

Professor  of  surgery,  Johns  Hopkins  University,  and 
surgeon-in-chief,  Johns  Hopkins  Hospital 

Residence — 1201  Eutaw  Place,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Born  September  23,  1852,  in  New  York  City,  the  son  of  William 
M.  and  Mary  L.  Halsted. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass. 


96 


BIOGRAPHIES 


WILLIAM    STEWART    HALSTED 


He  was  married  June  4,  1890,  in  Columbia,  Millwood,  S.  C, 
to  Miss  Caroline  Hampton,  daughter  of  Col.  Frank  Hampton,  a 
planter  and  soldier  who  was  killed  in  the  Civil  War.  They  have 
no  children. 


Halsted  writes  as  follows  of  his  life  since  graduation : 
"In  the  summer  of  1874  I  matriculated  as  a  medical 
student  in  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons 
(Columbia),  New  York.  Dr.  Henry  B.  Sands,  Xew 
York's  brilliant  surgeon,  was  my  preceptor,  and  I  soon 
became  laboratory  assistant  to  Prof.  John  C.  Dal  ton, 
the  renowned  physiologist.  On  competitive  examina- 
tion was  admitted  to  Bellevue  Hospital  as  surgical 
interne,  fourth  surgical  division,  in  the  summer  of  1876. 
Dr.  George  E.  Munroe  of  our  Class  was  admitted  to 
the  same  surgical  division,  and  the  intimate  association 


GRADUATES  97 


with  him  in  our  work  at  Bellevue  was  most  advanta- 
geous and  delightful  to  me.  Graduated  from  the  Medical 
School  in  the  spring  of  1877  and  was  awarded  a  prize 
in  money  for  leading  the  Class  in  scholarship.  It  was 
of  great  benefit  to  me  to  have  known  as  well  as  I  did 
certain  of  my  teachers  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons.  Dalton,  Sabine  and  Sands  were  men  of 
rare  charm  and  attainments,  and  I  regret  that  it  is  not 
fitting  at  this  time  to  say  more  to  emphasize  my  indebt- 
edness to  them.  Was  appointed  house  physician  to  the 
New  York  Hospital  in  the  spring  of  1898  and  had  the 
privilege  of  inaugurating  the  medical  department  in 
this  newly  erected  hospital.  The  two  years  from 
November,  1878,  to  September,  1880,  were  spent  in 
Europe  and  devoted  to  the  study  of  most  of  the  clinical 
medical  subjects,  but  particularly  to  anatomy  and 
embryology.  The  greater  part  of  this  time  was  passed 
in  Vienna.  Billroth  was  in  his  prime  and  it  was  my 
good  fortune  to  become  well  acquainted  and  dine  often 
with  Wolfer,  the  distinquished  first  assistant  of  this 
famous  surgeon.  A  month  in  Wiirzburg  with  K61- 
liker,  a  few  weeks  in  Leipzig  with  Thiersch,  Cohnheim, 
Wagner  and  Weigert,  and  a  week  with  Volkmann  in 
Halle  was  time  profitably  and  enjoyably  spent. 

"Immediately  on  my  return  from  abroad,  I  was 
appointed  assistant  demonstrator  of  anatomy  at  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  (Columbia), 
New  York,  and  the  following  year  (1881)  demonstrator, 
which  position  I  held  for  three  or  four  years.  From 
1880  to  1881  was  attending  physician  to  the  Charity 
Hospital  (now  the  City  Hospital),  Blackwell's  Island. 
Was  associate  attending  surgeon  to  Roosevelt  Hospi- 
tal and  chief  surgeon  to  the  out-patient  department  of 


98  BIOGRAPHIES 

this  hospital  from  1881  to  1887;  surgeon-in-chief  to  the 
Emigrant  Hospital,  Ward's  Island,  New  York,  from 
1881  to  1884,  and  attending  surgeon  to  the  Bellevue 
and  Presbyterian  Hospitals  from  1885  to  1887.  Gave 
a  course  of  thirteen  lectures  at  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons  during  the  illness  of  Dr.  Sabine,  pro- 
fessor of  anatomy,  on  the  anatomy  and  embryology  of 
the  central  nervous  system. 

"Kept  house  in  New  York  from  1881  to  1886  with 
Dr.  Thomas  A.  McBride,  to  whom  and  to  Dr.  W.  H. 
Welch,  Yale  '70,  I  owe  such  success  as  I  have  had  in 
medicine  more  than  to  all  other  men.  During  these 
six  years  in  New  York  I  supported  myself  mainly  by 
teaching,  serving  as  preceptor  to  students  who  took 
private  classes. 

"I  recall  so  well  the  occasion  of  the  visit  of  my  first 
students.  Three  came  at  the  same  moment  to  my  office, 
recommended  by  Prof.  Thos.  R.  Sabine,  and,  almost 
without  preliminaries,  each  handed  me  a  check  for  $100 
with  as  much  confidence,  apparently,  as  if  they  had 
been  depositing  the  money  in  a  bank.  I  had  just 
returned  from  the  two  years'  period  of  study  abroad, 
and,  altogether  without  experience  as  a  teacher,  was  to 
the  students,  and,  I  might  say,  to  myself,  an  unknown 
quantity  in  this  regard.  The  sensations  experienced 
on  receipt  of  this  money  or  booty  were  peculiar. 
Opposed  to  the  idea  of  the  'cram  quizes'  greatly  in 
vogue  in  those  days,  I  organized,  with  the  aid  of  Dr. 
Munroe  of  our  Class,  of  Dr.  George  M.  Tuttle,  Yale 
'77,  and  others,  a  class  with  the  purpose  of  instructing 
the  men  by  practical  methods  in  the  laboratory,  in  the 
dispensary,  and  at  the  bedside.  We  had  excellent 
facilities  for  this  manner  of  teaching.      Dr.  W.   H. 


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Welch,  professor  of  pathology  at  the  Bellevue  Medical 
School  during  four  of  those  years,  was  heartily  in 
sympathy  with  our  plan  and  gave  to  the  members  of 
our  Class,  although  not  in  the  same  school,  special 
instruction  in  pathology  in  his  laboratory.  He  was  in 
great  measure  responsible  for  the  success  of  the  experi- 
ment. Only  graduates  of  colleges  were  admitted  to 
the  class.  Our  students  discovered  after  a  time  that 
attendance  of  the  didactic  lectures  at  the  College  was 
not,  for  them,  essential,  and  perhaps  not,  altogether,  a 
desirable  thing.  The  good  results  of  this  method  of 
teaching  manifested  themselves  quickly,  and  success 
beyond  our  fondest  imaginings  attended  the  experiment. 

"In  the  winters  of  1887,  1888,  and  1889,  I  worked 
with  Dr.  Welch  in  the  pathological  laboratory  of  the 
Johns  Hopkins  University;  and  in  the  spring  of  1899, 
on  the  opening  of  the  Johns  Hopkins  Hospital, 
assumed  the  duties  of  director  of  the  surgical  depart- 
ment of  this  hospital.  The  following  year  was  made 
surgeon-in-chief  to  the  hospital  and  accordingly  became 
professor  of  surgery  in  the  Johns  Hopkins  University. 
Am  still  occupying  these  positions. 

"Of  the  honorary  degrees  received  in  this  country 
and  abroad,  there  is  not  one  that  I  prize  so  dearly  as 
the  LL.D.  conferred  by  Yale  University  at  the 
solicitations  of  my  classmates  of  1874." 

Halsted  received  the  degree  of  LL.D.  from  Yale  in 
1904  and  from  Edinburgh  University  in  1905,  and  that 
of  Sc.D.  from  Columbia  in  1904.  He  is  an  honorary 
fellow  of  the  Royal  Chemical  Society  of  England  and 
Edinburgh,  an  associate  fellow  of  the  American  Aca- 
demy of  Arts  and  Science,  and  a  fellow  of  the  American 
Surgical  Association  and  of  the  Deutsche  Gesellschaft 
fur  Chirurgie. 


100  BIOGRAPHIES 

Contributions  to  Surgery 

1880-1881 — Introduced  gutta  percha  tissue  as  a  dressing  for 
granulating  wounds,  employing  it  later  as  a  drainage 
material. 

1884- — Directed  attention  to  the  effects  of  abduction  and  adduc- 
tion on  measurements  in  fractures  of  the  neck  of  the 
femur. 

1884 — Performed  and  recommended  transfusion  of  blood  centri- 
petally  into  an  artery  in  the  human  subject  and  returned 
by  transfusion  the  patient's  own  blood  after  it  had  been 
mechanically  freed  of  the  poison  (CO)  of  illuminating  gas. 

1885 — Devised  and  described  the  distention  or  infiltration  method 
of  employing  cocaine  for  local  anesthesia;  noted  also  that 
the  injection  of  cocaine  into  a  nerve  produced  anesthesia 
in  the  parts  supplied  by  that  nerve,  and  that  cutting  off 
or  diminishing  the  blood  supply  of  the  cocainized  part 
increased  and  prolonged  the  anesthetic  effect. 

1885 — Discovered  that  local  anesthesia  might  be  produced  by  the 
injections  of  exceedingly  weak  solutions  of  cocaine  and  even 
of  water. 

1886 — Recommended  and  practiced  the  treatment  of  urethritis  by 
irrigation  with   antiseptic   solutions. 

1887 — Directed  the  attention  of  surgeons  to  the  submucous  coat  of 
the  intestines  and  to  the  necessity  of  including  a  portion 
of  this  coat  in  the  stitches  in  making  an  intestinal  suture. 
Performed  on  animals  operations  of  reversal  of  the  intes- 
tines and  the  isolation  of  an  intestinal  loop. 

1888 — Made  the  discovery,  with  Sir  Victor  jMersley,  and  independ- 
ently, that  after  removal  of  a  portion  of  the  thyroid  gland 
in  dogs  there  occurs  a  characteristic  hyperplasia  of  the 
part  remaining;  and  that  the  glands  of  puppies  of 
thyroidectomized  parents  become  likewise  hypertrophied. 

1889 — Devised  the  buried  plate  and  screw  method  for  the  treatment 
of  certain  fractures. 

1889 — Introduced  the  teaching  of  operative  surgery  on  animals. 

1889-1891 — Described  a  radical  operation  for  the  cure  of  cancer 
of  the  breast. 

1890 — Practiced  and  recommended  the  open-air  treatment  of 
surgical  tuberculosis. 


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1891-1893 — Devised  the  so-called  Bassini-Halsted  operation  for 
the  cure  of  inguinal  hernia. 

1892 — Performed  the  first  successful  ligation  of  the  first  portion  of 
the  left  subclavian  artery;  also  the  first  and  only  excision 
of  a  subclavian  aneurism. 

1895 — Devised  a  method  of  skin  transplantation  by  progressive 
rotation  of  the  transferred  piece. 

1896 — Performed  the  first  excision  of  a  cancer  of  the  diverticulum 
of  Vater — of  the  common  bile  duct. 

1896 — Introduced  silver  foil  as  a  dressing  for  closed  wounds, 
covering  for  skin  grafts,  etc. 

1901 — Discovered  with  Opie  in  a  case  of  acute  hemorrhagic 
pancreatitis  upon  which  I  had  operated  that  retrojection  of 
bile  into  the  pancreatic  duct  might  be  a  cause  of  this  lesion. 

1903 — Recommended  the  use  of  the  cremaster  muscle  in  the  treat- 
ment of  the  oblique  form,  and  the  sheath  of  the  musculus 
rectus  abdominis  in  the  direct  form  of  inguinal  hernia. 

1905 — Devised  a  method  for  the  partial,  progressive  and  complete 
occlusion  of  the  aorta  and  other  large  arteries  by  the  use 
of  metal  bands,  also  an  instrument  with  which  to  curl  and 
apply  these  bands. 

1906 — Operated  upon  the  aortic  arch  in  the  human  subject  and 
(1906)  upon  the  thoracic  artery  in  animals  and  man,  and 
demonstrated  that  after  partial  occlusion  of  the  aorta 
(thoracic)  the  blood  pressure  might  remain  lowered  for 
many  months. 

1906 — Cured  aneurism  of  some  of  the  principal  arterial  trunks  by 
partial  occlusion  of  the  artery  proximal  to  the  aneurism. 

1906—1908 — Demonstrated  on  dogs  the  possibility  of  the  trans- 
plantation of  the  parathyroid  glands  and  obtained  absolute 
proof  of  a  vital  function  of  these  epithelial  bodies. 

Established  certain  laws   relative   to   the   transplantation 
of  the  parathyroid  glands. 

1906 — Treated  tetany  successfully  by  the  administration  of  the 
parathyroid  glands  of  beeves. 

1906  or  1907 — Made  use  of  measurements  of  the  mammary  radii 
to  assist  in  the  diagnosis  of  breast  tumors  and  in  the  deter- 
mination of  the  age  and  relative  malignancy  of  cancer  of 
the  breast. 


LC2  BIOGRAPHIES 

1910 — Contrived  with  Dr.  Willis  D.  Gatch  the  obturator  or  bulk- 
head method  of  performing  aseptically  end-to-end  suture  of 
the  intestines. 

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operations  for  the  cure  of  cancer  of  the  breast.  Trans,  of  the  Am. 
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urgie,  Berlin,  1911;  Report  of  a  dog  maintained  in  good  health 
by  a  parathyroid  autograft  0.25  in  diameter,  and  which  died  of 
tetany  on  its  removal  a  year  later.     Jrl.  of  Exper.  Med.,  1912. 


Wallace  Kasson  Harrison 

Physician 

Residence — 1244  North  State  Street,  Chicago,  111. 

Business  address — 1604  Masonic  Temple,  Chicago,  111. 

Born  August  11,  1848,  in  Bethlehem,  Conn.,  the  son  of  William 
R.  and  Susan  L.  (Kasson)  Harrison. 

He  prepared  at  the  Connecticut  Literary  Institute,  Suffield,  Conn. 
He  entered  the  Class  of  '73  but  remained  with  it  only  two  terms, 
becoming  a  member  of  the  Class  of  '74  at  the  beginning  of  Freshman 
year. 

He  was  married  July  27,  1882,  in  Pawtucket,  R.  I.,  to  Miss 
Emma  Geneva  Wheaton,  daughter  of  Joseph  Wheaton,  a  black- 
smith of  North  Rehoboth,  Mass.  They  have  had  four  children, 
all  born  in  Chicago,  111. : 


104 


BIOGRAPHIES 


WALLACE    KASSON    HARRISON 


Louise  Lillian,  born  April  27,  1883. 

Wallace  Kasson,  Jr.,  born  January  8,  1885,  died  February  4, 
1897. 

Constance  Milsted,  born  December  7,  1890. 
Geneva  Wheaton,  born  March  10,  1898. 

Harrison  writes: 

"I  came  to  Chicago  in  the  fall  of  1874  and  found 
temporary  employment  in  a  fire  insurance  office.  In 
December  of  the  same  year  I  obtained  a  position  as 
tutor  in  a  family  residing  at  Arlington  Heights,  111., 
for  about  seven  months  and  began  the  study  of 
medicine.  In  the  fall  of  1875  I  matriculated  at  Rush 
Medical  College  and  there  took  my  first  course  of 
lectures  and  clinics  with  E.  M.  Reading,  '74,  for  a 
classmate  and  companion.  During  the  summer  vaca- 
tion I  found  work  in  a  hotel  and  in  a  real  estate  office, 


GRADUATES  105 


and  in  the  fall  of  1878  matriculated  at  Bennett  Medical 
College  and  took  my  second  course  of  medical  lectures. 
I  received  my  degree  of  M.D.  in  March,  1877,  and 
soon  after  hung  my  shingle  in  Wauconda,  Lake 
County,  111.  Practice  was  not  remunerative  there  and 
after  three  months  I  returned  to  Chicago  to  do  a  little 
research  work  in  the  employ  of  a  physician.  I  opened 
an  office  in  Rogers  Park,  111.,  in  the  fall  of  1878,  and 
remained  there  until  the  following  spring,  when  I 
received  an  appointment  as  demonstrator  of  anatomy 
in  Bennett  Medical  College.  I  was  glad  to  accept  the 
position  and  at  once  opened  an  office  in  Chicago,  where, 
since  that  time,  I  have  been  continuously  in  practice. 
I  held  the  position  of  demonstrator  of  anatomy  for 
two  years  and  was  then  elected  to  the  chair  of  medical 
chemistry  in  Bennett  Medical  College  which  I  held  until 
1882.  During  that  year  I  received  a  call  to  teach 
medical  chemistry  in  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  of  Chicago,  which  I  accepted  and  at  the  same 
time  took  up  some  postgraduate  work.  In  1884  I 
received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons.  The  years  since  that  date 
have  been  devoted  to  the  general  practice  of  medicine 
and  life  insurance  examinations.  In  1894  I  received 
the  appointment  of  Supreme  Medical  Examiner  of  the 
Royal  League,  a  fraternal  insurance  society,  and  a  few 
years  later  was  appointed  medical  director  of  two  other 
insurance  organizations,  which  positions  I  still  hold. 

"I  am  a  member  of  the  American  Academy  of 
Medicine,  the  American  Medical  Association,  the 
Illinois  State  Medical  Society,  and  the  Chicago  Medical 
Society.  For  the  present  year  I  am  president  of  the 
medical  section  of  the  National  Fraternal   Congress. 


106  BIOGRAPHIES 

I  am  a  member  of  the  Unitarian  Church  and  hold 
membership  in  various  local  and  civic  and  charitable 
organizations. 

"Gardening  is  my  favorite  recreation.  Reading, 
Leighton  and  L eland  are  the  classmates  whom  I  most 
frequently  meet.  Looking  back  over  the  years,  I 
desire  to  bear  witness  that  life  is  worth  living  and  that 
its  rewards  for  me  have  in  large  measure  sprung  from 
the  influences  of  college  years." 

His  writings  have  consisted  of  a  few  papers  upon 
medical  and  life  insurance  subjects  which  have  been 
printed  in  the  annual  reports  of  the  National  Fraternal 
Congress. 


Charles  Sidney  Hartwell 

Mining 

Address — Care  The  Oil  &  Metals  Leasing  Company, 
Banning,  Calif. 

Born  July  1,  1847,  in  Forestburg,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Alfred  and 
Mary  Hartwell. 

He  prepared  for  college  under  the  instruction  of  his  cousin, 
Samuel   S.   Hartwell,  Yale   '59,  at  Mount   Retirement,   N.   J. 

He  is  unmarried. 

After  graduation  Hartwell  taught  school  one  year 
in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  In  the  fall  of  1875  he  entered  the 
Columbia  Law  School  and  received  the  degree  of 
LL.B.  from  that  institution  in  May,  1877. 

After  practicing  law  in  Xew  York  City  for  a  time, 
he  removed  first  to  Rugby,  N.  D.,  then  to  Rolla,  and 
finally  to  Leeds,  N.  D.,  as  cashier  of  the  bank  of  Leeds. 
The  panic  of  1893  caused  the  bank  to  suspend  because 


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107 


CHARLES    SIDNEY    HARTWELL 


collections  could  not  be  made  and  land  was  of  almost  no 
value.  One  could  buy  all  the  land  he  wanted  at  from 
three  to  five  dollars  per  acre,  which  now  cannot  be 
bought  for  less  than  fifty  to  one  hundred  dollars  per  acre. 
The  bank  paid  every  dollar  to  the  depositors  and 
returned  to  the  stockholders  all  the  money  they  had  put 
in  the  bank.  From  Leeds  he  went  to  Helena,  Mont., 
and  while  there  learned  assaying.  From  Helena  he 
went  first  to  Leonia,  Idaho;  from  there  to  Troy, 
Mont.,  and  from  Troy  to  Sylvanite,  Mont.,  as  assayer 
and  bookkeeper  for  the  Goldflint  Mining  Company. 
The  ore  of  the  mine  was  low  grade  gold  ore,  and  the  bad 
management  caused  the  company  to  close  the  mine. 
The  mill  was  built  in  the  wrong  place  and  the  company 
put  in  steam  power  when  they  should  have  put  in 
water   power,    for   the   Yakt   River   was   only   a   few 


108  BIOGRAPHIES 

hundred  feet  from  the  mill  with  plenty  of  water  to  run 
the  mill  twelve  months  in  the  year.  A  new  company 
now  owns  the  mine  with  these  improvements  and  is 
doing  well.  The  largest  gold  brick  the  mine  produced 
in  two  weeks'  run  was  some  fifteen  pounds  of  gold. 

From  Sylvanite,  he  went  to  Spokane,  Wash.,  where 
he  was  in  the  mining  business.  From  Spokane  he  went 
to  Libby,  Mont.,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the  assay 
business  and  had  charge  of  the  money  order  and  book- 
keeping department  of  the  Post  Office.  The  money 
order  business  amounted  to  from  three  thousand  to  six 
thousand  dollars  per  month.  From  Libby,  Mont.,  he 
went  to  Coulterville,  Calif.,  where  he  was  offered  a 
large  block  of  stock  in  the  Nevada  California  Gold 
Mining  Company  if  he  would  put  in  money  enough  to 
build  a  ten  stamp  gold  mill.  He  was  unable  to  raise 
the  money  and  went  to  Los  Angeles,  Calif.,  where  he 
had  mining  interests  and  is  now  working  for  the  Oil 
&  Metals  Leasing  Company,  near  Banning,  Calif. 
The  mines  are  some  sixty-eight  miles  from  Banning,  in 
Riverside  County,  in  the  San  Bernardino  mountains. 


Henry  Prescott  Hatch 

Banker 
Residence — 124  Remsen  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Business  address — 71  Broadway,  New  York  City 

Born  August  22,  1852,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Waiter 
Tilden  and  Rebecca  Taylor  Hatch. 

He  prepared  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

He  was  married  August  18,  1883,  in  St.  Peter's  Church,  London, 
England,  to  Miss  Adela  Elizabeth  Lopes  (died  in  March,  1890), 
daughter  to  Sir  Massey  Lopes,  baronet,  a  resident  of  Maristow, 


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109 


HENRY    PRESCOTT  HATCH 


Roborough,  South  Devon,  England,  and  of  28  Grosvenor  Gardens, 
London,  and  a  member  of  the  House  of  Commons  for  twenty-eight 
years.     They   had   no   children. 


Hatch  wrote  in  1909: 

"For  the  past  thirty-seven  years  I  have  resided  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  My  business  from  the  start  has  been 
banking  and  I  have  been  an  active  member  of  the  New 
York  Stock  Exchange  for  thirty- two  years.  I  have 
been  connected  with  only  one  firm  during  that  time, 
namely  that  of  W.  T.  Hatch  &  Sons,  bankers,  of  Xew 
York  City. 

"I  am  a  member  of  the  Union  League  Club, 
the  University  Club,  the  Yale  Club,  and  the  Players, 
of  New  York  City;  and  of  the  Crescent  Athletic  Club 
of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.     My  favorite  recreation  is  riding 


110  BIOGRAPHIES 

and  driving.  The  classmates  whom  I  have  seen  most 
frequently  in  the  past  years  are  Russell  Walden, 
T.  DeWitt  Cuyler,  George  Dimock,  Pearce  Barnes, 
and  Charles  J.  Harris." 


William  Hedges 

Congregational  Minister 

Residence — Colebrook,  Conn. 

Permanent  address — Care  Samuel  O.  Hedges,  Bridge  Hampton, 
Long  Island,  N.  Y. 

Born  June  21,  1851,  in  Sag  Harbor,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Henry 
Parsons  and  Glorianna  Osborne  Hedges. 

He  prepared  at  Bridge  Hampton,  N.  Y. 

He  was  married  June  8,  1880,  in  Mattituck,  L.  I.,  to  Miss  Harriet 
S.  Hamlin  (died  April  22,  1887),  daughter  of  the  Rev.  James  T. 
Hamlin  (died  at  Mattituck  in  1892),  formerly  a  Presbyterian 
minister.     They   had   no   children. 

Hedges  writes: 

"After  graduation  I  spent  one  year  in  Bridge 
Hampton,  L.  I.,  tutoring.  In  1875  I  entered  the  Yale 
Divinity  School  and  was  graduated  from  there  in 
1878  with  the  usual  degree  of  S.T.B.  I  returned  to 
Bridge  Hampton  and  remained  there  one  year,  until 
June,  1879,  supplying  the  pulpit  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  of  that  place.  In  June,  1879,  I  became  stated 
supply  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Mattituck,  L.  I., 
remaining  in  that  relation  until  June,  1882.  I  was 
licensed  to  preach  by  the  Presbytery  of  Long  Island 
in  session  at  South  Hampton,  L.  I.,  in  September, 
1878,  and  was  ordained  by  the  same  body  at  Moriches, 
L.  I.,  in  October,  1879.     In  July,  1882,  I  returned  to 


GRADUATES  111 


Bridge  Hampton  and  stayed  there  until  November, 
1882,  when  I  removed  to  Jamesport,  L.  I.,  and  became 
acting  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  there.  In 
1885  I  was  installed  as  regular  pastor  of  the  Church. 
I  lived  in  Jamesport  until  November,  1893.  My  wife 
died  there  and  is  buried  at  Mattituck.  In  November, 
1893,  I  became  pastor  of  the  Harwinton  Congrega- 
tional Church  of  Har- 
winton, Conn.,  where  I 
stayed  until  October  1, 
1898.  Then  I  removed 
to  New  York  City  and 
studied  for  one  year  in 
the  post  graduate  depart- 
ment of  Union  Theologi- 
cal   Seminary.      During 


that  year  I  became  pastor 
of  the  Congregational 
Church  of  Wading  River, 
L.  I.  But  I  finished  out 
my  year  at  the  Union 
Seminary,  supplying  the 
Church  meanwhile.  In 
April,  1899,  I  removed 
to  Wading  River,  remain- 
ing there  until  September,  1901,  when  I  became  pastor 
of  the  Congregational  Church  of  Colebrook,  Conn., 
my  present  position. 

"I  am  a  member  of  the  Litchfield  County  University 
Club,  and  of  the  Litchfield  North  Association  of 
Congregational  Ministers.  When  on  Long  Island  for 
four  years  I  was  secretary  of  the  Suffolk  Association 
of  Congregational  Churches  and  Ministers.      I  have 


112  BIOGRAPHIES 

met  few  classmates  since  graduation.  Tenney  and  I 
were  roommates  and  for  several  years  kept  in  touch 
with  one  another,  but  lost  sight  of  each  other  about 
fifteen  years  ago.  I  have  seen  no  member  of  '74  during 
that  time." 


William  Olin  Henderson 

Lawyer 

Residence — 50  South  Third  Street,  Columbus,  Ohio 

Business  address — 613-618  New  First  National  Bank  Building. 
Columbus,  Ohio 

Born  October  28,  1850,  in  Liberty  Township,  Union  County, 
Ohio,  the  son  of  James  Allen  and  Mary  Josephine  Henderson. 

He  prepared  at  Marysville,  Ohio. 

He  was  married  October  14,  1886,  in  Wallingford,  Conn.,  to 
Miss  Sarah  Wilcox  Ellis,  a  graduate  of  Miss  Brace's  School,  New 
Haven,  daughter  of  Robert  Ellis  (died  in  1893),  a  merchant  of 
Columbus,  Ohio,  and  later  of  New  York  City.  They  have  no 
children. 

After  graduation,  Henderson  went  to  Cheshire, 
Conn.,  as  teacher  in  the  Episcopal  Academy,  where  he 
taught  for  nearly  three  years.  He  devoted  his  time 
largely  to  teaching  mathematics,  and  he  also  read  and 
studied  law,  having  registered  as  a  law  student  in  July, 
1874,  in  the  office  of  James  W.  Robinson  of  Marysville, 
Ohio.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Ohio  State  Bar  in 
July,  1877.  Resigning  his  position  in  the  Academy, 
he  removed  to  Columbus,  Ohio,  September  17,  1877, 
and,  upon  the  first  of  October,  opened  a  law  office  in 
partnership  with  George  O.  Hamilton,  then  practicing 
in  Marysville,  the  firm  name  being  Hamilton  &  Hen- 


GRADUATES 


113 


WILLIAM    OLIN    HENDERSON 


derson.  That  firm  continued  about  three  years,  when 
it  was  dissolved  on  account  of  the  failing  health  of  Mr. 
Hamilton,  who  died  in  1882.  Henderson  then  con- 
tinued to  practice  alone  until  1883,  after  which  he  was 
associated  for  one  year  with  William  E.  Guerin,  under 
the  firm  name  of  Guerin  &  Henderson.  In  July, 
1889,  he  joined  the  Hon.  Richard  A.  Harrison  and  the 
Hon.  Joseph  Olds,  Yale  '53,  leading  members  of  the 
bar  of  Ohio,  under  the  well-known  firm  name  of  Har- 
rison, Olds  &  Henderson,  which  continued  until  June, 
1902.  Henderson  was  again  alone  until  August,  1903, 
when  he  was  joined  by  Theodore  M.  Livesay,  forming 
the  firm  of  Henderson  &  Livesay.  Later  Karl  E. 
Burr  was  admitted  to  the  firm,  which  still  exists.  They 
engage  in  general  practice,  but  have  a  large  amount 


114  BIOGRAPHIES 

of  corporation  work  chiefly  as  representatives  of  rail- 
road interests.  The  firm  of  Harrison,  Olds  &  Hender- 
son was  local  counsel  for  many  years  for  the  Cleveland, 
Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railway  Company,  a 
large  part  of  the  legal  work  devolving  upon  Mr.  Hen- 
derson. The  firm  of  Henderson,  Livesay  &  Burr  are 
solicitors  for  the  Pittsburgh,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St. 
Louis  Railway  Company.  Since  1906,  Henderson  has 
been  general  counsel  for  the  Sunday  Creek  Company, 
which  is  one  of  the  largest  coal  companies  operating 
in  Ohio  and  West  Virginia.  His  clientage  is  of  an 
extensive  and  important  character,  which  fact  indicates 
that  he  stands  in  the  foremost  rank  of  the  able  lawyers 
of  the  Columbus  Bar. 

Henderson  is  a  Republican,  but  has  never  been 
active  as  a  party  worker,  except  to  assist  friends.  In 
1902,  however,  he  was  a  candidate  for  nomination  for 
judge  of  the  supreme  court.  In  March,  1907,  he 
declined  an  appointment  as  United  States  district 
judge,  and  in  the  fall  of  1908  he  was  presidential 
elector  for  the  twelfth  congressional  district  on  the 
Republican  ticket,  casting  his  vote  for  William  H. 
Taft,  between  whom  and  Henderson  there  has  long 
existed  a  warm  friendship. 

From  1884  until  1890,  he  was  a  member  of  the 
standing  committee  of  the  supreme  court  for  the 
examination  of  applicants  for  admission  to  the  bar,  and 
for  three  years  was  chairman  of  that  committee.  He 
has  held  membership  in  the  Ohio  State  Bar  Association 
since  1889,  and  for  many  years  has  been  identified  with 
the  Franklin  County  Bar  Association.  He  was  at  one 
time  a  member  of  the  Disciples  Church  and  afterward 


GRADUATES  115 

became  a  communicant  of  the  Trinity  Episcopal  Church 
of  Columbus,  Ohio,  of  which  he  served  for  a  period  as 
vestryman.  For  many  years  he  has  been  a  member  of 
the  Columbus  Board  of  Trade,  has  served  on  various 
committees,  and  for  one  term  was  its  first  vice-president. 
A  popular  and  prominent  member  of  the  Columbus 
Club,  he  was  for  six  years  chairman  of  its  house  com- 
mittee, and  for  many  years  has  been  its  first  vice- 
president  and  one  of  its  directors.  He  is  president 
and  one  of  the  directors  of  the  Arlington  Country  Club, 
is  a  member  and  director  of  the  Castalia  Trout  Club, 
was  for  two  years  director  of  the  Western  Golf  Asso- 
ciation, and  in  1908  and  1909  was  president  of  the  Ohio 
Golf  Association.  This  indicates  that  trout  fishing  and 
golf  are  his  chief  recreations.  At  the  thirty-fifth  year 
reunion  of  the  Class,  he  won  the  cup  kindly  put  up  by 
Aldis  for  the  best  golfer  of  the  Class,  the  contest 
which  the  committee  made  an  attractive  feature  of  the 
reunion. 

With  a  well  developed  physique,  which  served  as  a 
foundation  for  his  mental  growth,  he  has  steadily 
progressed  in  lines  demanding  strong  intellectual  force 
and  activity,  and  his  position  in  his  profession  has 
given  him  honorable  distinction  as  a  member  of  the 
Ohio  bar. 

Henderson  has  been  abroad  twice  on  short  trips. 
The  first,  in  1893,  was  a  sudden  and  important  business 
trip  to  Holland;  and  the  second,  in  1908,  was  golfing 
and  motoring  trip  through  England  and  Scotland. 

"Your  request  for  my  writings  suggests  an  expression 
of  General  Joe  Geiger,  a  quaint  local  character,  now 
dead,  who,  after  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  had 


116 


BIOGRAPHIES 


hung  out  his  shingle  in  Circleville,  was  asked  if  he  was 
practicing  law.  'Yes,'  said  he,  'I  am  doing  a  little 
obscure  writing.'  My  writings  are  my  briefs  and  other 
legal  papers,  which  are  quite  as  obscure  and  ephemeral 
as  are  and  have  always  been  those  of  the  ordinary 
lawyer  engaged  day  by  day  in  the  very  practical  work 
of  safeguarding  and  promoting  the  interests  of  clients." 


John  Brown  Heron,  Jr. 

Lawyer,  retired 
Residence — South  Linden  Avenue,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

Born  October  18,  1852,  in 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  the  son  of 
John  and  Susanna  Herron. 

He  prepared  for  college 
partly  in  the  Pittsburgh  High 
School  and  partly  with  Prof. 
Griggs,  Yale  '43. 

He  was  married  February 
5,  1884,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
to  Miss  Emily  Sprankle, 
daughter  of  Walter  M.  Spran- 
kle, a  merchant  of  Philadel- 
phia, who  died  October  9. 
1895.  They  have  four  chil- 
dren, all  born  in  Pittsburgh, 
Pa.: 

Martha,  a  graduate  of  Miss 
Dana's  School,  born  October 
13,  1884. 

Elizabeth,   a    graduate    of 

Mrs.  Dow's  School,  born  April 

30,     1888,     married    April    9, 

1910,   Henry   M.    Curry,   Jr.,   Cornell   '09,   of   Pittsburgh.      They 

have  one  daughter,  Elizabeth  Heron,  born  January  7,  1911. 


JOHN    BROWN    HERON.    JR. 


GRADUATES  117 

John  Brown,  Jr.,  Yale  '10,  born  November  20,  1889,  attending 
Harvard  Law  School. 

Walter  Sprankle,  Yale  '11  S.,  born  June  3,  1892. 

In  October,  1874,  Heron  entered  Harvard  Law 
School,  where  he  remained  until  March,  1875,  when  he 
went  into  the  law  office  of  George  Shiras,  Yale  '53, 
at  Pittsburgh.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Allegheny 
County  bar  in  January,  1877,  and  practiced  his  pro- 
fession until  about  twenty  years  ago.  He  is  not 
engaged  in  any  business  at  present,  and  although  a 
stockholder  in  a  number  of  corporations,  he  takes  no 
active  part  in  any  except  the  Union  Storage  Company 
of  Pittsburgh,  of  which  he  has  been  a  director  for 
many  years. 


DeWitt  Clinton  Holbrook 

Fruit  Grower 
Address — Freewater,  Ore.,  R.  F.  D.  No.  1 

Born  May  25,  1851,  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  the  son  of  DeWitt  C.  and 
Mary  May  Holbrook. 

He  prepared  at  the  Detroit  (Mich.)  High  School. 

He  was  married  October  30,  1884,  in  Walla  Walla  County, 
Wash.,  to  Miss  Mary  J.  Wellman,  daughter  of  A.  C.  Wellman,  a 
farmer  of  Clyde,  Wash.     They  have  four  children: 

Wellman,  born  August  1,  1884. 

Helen  Merritt,  born  August  11,  1885. 

Mary  Louise,  born  January  6,  1889. 

DeWitt  Clinton,  Jr.,  born  in  Great  Falls,  Mont.,  January  23, 
1900. 

After  graduation  Holbrook  studied  law  for  six 
months  in  his  father's  office  in  Detroit,  and  afterwards 


118 


BIOGRAPHIES 


went  to  Montana  Territory,  where  he  engaged  in  stock 

farming  and  quartz  min- 
ing. From  June,  1875, 
to  January,  1888,  he  was 
in  the  sheep  business  in 
Washington  and  Mon- 
tana, and  later  became 
toll  collector  on  Wagon 
Bridge,  at  Great  Falls, 
Mont.,  and  then  inspec- 
tor of  weights  and  meas- 
ures  at  Great  Falls. 
While  in  Montana  in  the 
sheep  business,  on  March 
14,  1885,  he  received  a 
paralytic  stroke  from 
which  he  has  never  fully 
dewitt  clinton  holbrook         recovered. 


Daniel  Robinson  Howe 

Banker,  retired 

Residence — 1008  Asylum  Avenue,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Business  address — Connecticut  General  Insurance  Company 
Building,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Permanent  address — Care  Daniel  R.  Howe,  Box  708, 
Hartford,  Conn. 


Born  in  1851,  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Edmund  G.  and 
Frances  K.  Howe. 

He  prepared  at  the  Hartford   (Conn.)   Grammar  School. 

He  was  married  February  16,  1876,  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  to  Miss 
Henrietta  Atwood  Collins,  daughter  of  Erastus  Collins,  a  merchant 


GRADUATES 


119 


of   Hartford.       They   have   three   children,   all   born   in   Hartford, 
Conn. : 

Edmund  Grant,  Yale  '06,  born  November  22,   1883. 

Henrietta  Collins,  born  July  14,  1885,  married  May  6,  1908. 

Marjorie  Frances,  born  June  15,  1887. 

Since  graduation  Howe  has  resided  in  Hartford, 
Conn.  He  was  for  a  while  in  the  wholesale  dry  goods 
business  with  Collins,  Fenn  &  Company,  and  later 
became  clerk  and  bookkeeper  in  the  Hartford  National 
Bank,  where  he  remained  until  1879.  In  1881, 
Atwood  Collins,  Yale  '73,  became  his  partner  under  the 
firm  name  of  Howe  &  Collins,  private  bankers.  Howe 
has  now  retired  from  active  business. 

He  was  superintendent  of  the  Warburton  Sunday 
School  ( Congregational )  for  many  years ;  is  a  deacon  of 
the  First  Church  of  Christ  in  Hartford  (a  Congrega- 


DANIEL    ROBINSON    HOWE 


120  BIOGRAPHIES 

tional  Church  otherwise  known  as  the  Center  Church)  ; 
president  of  the  Hartford  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  vice  chair- 
man of  the  State  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  is  president  of  the 
Hartford  Federation  of  Churches.  He  was  treasurer 
of  the  Hartford  Street  Railway  Company  until  it  was 
sold  to  the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Rail- 
road Company;  is  vice-president  of  the  Society  for 
Savings,  director  of  the  Connecticut  Trust  &  Safe 
Deposit  Company,  the  National  Exchange  Bank,  the 
Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company,  the  Hartford  & 
New  York  Transportation  Company,  and  the  Collins 
Company;  is  treasurer  of  several  religious  and  philan- 
thropic organizations,  and  a  trustee  of  several  like 
enterprises  and  estates. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Hartford  Club,  and  of  the 
University,  Golf,  the  Twilight  and  Archaeological  clubs 
of  Hartford.  He  has  traveled  west  as  far  as  Helena, 
Mont.,  and  Wichita,  Kans. ;  south  as  far  as  Savannah, 
Ga.,  and  Selma,  Ala.,  and  north  as  far  as  Ha-Ha  Bay, 
Canada.  He  has  visited  Europe  six  times,  traveling 
through  England,  France,  Germany,  Austria,  Italy, 
Holland,  Belgium,  the  Azores  and  Bermuda. 


*  Charles  Edward  Humphrey 

Died  1881 

Born  January  23,  1854,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Jeffrey 
Amherst  and  Julia  Frances  Humphrey. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  Englewood,  N.  J.,  and  was  connected 
with  the  Class  of  '73  for  three  months,  being  obliged  to  leave 
college  in  the  winter  of  1869  owing  to  ill  health.  He  then  entered 
and  completed  his  course  with  '74. 

He  was  unmarried. 


GRADUATES 


121 


After  graduation  Humphrey  began  the  study  of  law 
in  New  York  City  in  the 
office  of  Chapman,  Cro- 
well  &  Scott,  and  also  in 
Columbia  College,  where 
he  received  the  degree  of 
LL.B.inl876.  Soon 
after  this  he  began  prac- 
tice by  himself,  and  was 
making  good  progress  in 
his  profession  when  he 
was  attacked  by  Bright's 
disease.  After  an  illness 
of  twelve  months,  he  died 
at  his  father's  residence 
in  Englewood,  December 
7,    1881,   in   his   twenty- 


eighth  year. 


CHARLES    EDWARD    HUMPHREY 


Francis  Gregory  Ingersoll 

Retired 
Address — East  Haddam,  Conn. 


Born  June  14,  1852,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  the  son  of  the 
late  Gov.  Charles  Roberts  Ingersoll,  Yale  '40,  LL.D.  '74,  and 
Virginia    Gregory    Ingersoll. 

He  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

He  was  married  October  10,  1899,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  to  Miss 
Lucy  Parkman  Trowbridge,  Yale  Art  School  '82,  daughter  of 
William  P.  Trowbridge,  deceased,  professor  of  physics  and 
chemistry  at  Columbia  University.     They  have  one  child: 

Lucy  Parkman,  born  January  9,  1901. 


122 


BIOGRAPHIES 


After  graduation  Ingersoll  studied  at  the  Yale  Law 
School,  receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  June,  1877. 
He  writes: 

"I  lived  in  New  Haven  from  1877  to  1890,  prac- 
ticing law.  From  1890  to  1907  I  was  employed  in  busi- 
ness with  the  following  companies:  the  Harlan  & 
Hollingsworth  Company,  shipbuilders  of  Wilmington, 
Del.,  electric  department;  the  Thomson-Houston  Elec- 
tric Company,  Boston, 
Mass.,  marine  depart- 
ment; the  General  Elec- 
tric Company,  New  York 
City,  sales  department ; 
the  Central  Electric 
Heating  Company,  New 
York  City,  office  work; 
the  Staten  Island  Land 
&  Improvement  Com- 
pany, New  York,  office 
work;  the  Standard 
Trust  Company,  New 
York,  bookkeeper ;  and 
the  Mutual  Trust  Com- 
pany, Port  Chester, 
francis  Gregory  ingersoll        N.   Y.,   secretary   and 

treasurer. 
"In   October,    1909,   I   purchased   a   place   at   East 
Haddam,  Conn.,  where  I  now  live  and  expect  to  live 
in  the  future.     I  have  no  business  connection  at  the 
present  time." 


GRADUATES 


123 


*Charles  Ives 

Died  1883 

Born  February  14,  1853,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  the  son  of 
Charles  and  Catharine  M.  Ives. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New 
Haven. 

He  was  unmarried. 


After  graduation  Ives 
studied  law  in  the  Yale 
Law  School,  receiving  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  in  1876. 
Before  leaving  the  law 
school  he  entered  his 
father's  office  and  was 
soon  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  Xew  Haven.  He  con- 
tinued in  practice  after 
his  father's  death  in  1880, 
applying  himself  with 
signal  ability  and  indus- 
try, but  was  seriously 
affected  for  several  years 
by  hereditary  rheuma- 
tism. He  died  at  his 
summer    residence    in 

West  Haven,  Conn.,  August  31,  1883,  in  his  thirty-first 
year,  of  typhoid  fever,  after  a  few  days'  illness. 


CHARLES    IVES 


124  BIOGRAPHIES 

Henry  Amnion  James 

Lawyer 
Residence — 20  West  Twelfth  Street,  New  York  City 
Business  address — 30  Broad  Street,  New  York  City 

Born  April  24,  1854-,  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  the  son  of  Henry  and 
Amelia (Cate)  James. 

He  was  prepared  by  a  private  tutor. 

He  was  married  September  21,  1891,  in  East  Hampton,  L.  I., 
to  Miss  Laura  Brevoort  Sedgwick  (died  November  1,  1907), 
daughter  of  William  Ellery  Sedgwick  (deceased),  a  lawyer,  of 
New  York  City  and  Lenox,  Mass.     They  had  two  children: 

Dorothy,   born   in   New   York   City,   May    15,    1892. 

William  Ellery  Sedgwick,  born  in  East  Hampton,  L.  I.,  August 
4,  1895. 

James  writes: 

"Immediately  after  graduation  I  spent  two  years  in 
Europe  attending  lectures  at  Jena  and  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Berlin,  coquetting  with  the  arts  and  sciences 
and  traveling  in  the  intervals.  I  had  Robbins,  '74,  for 
a  companion  in  Jena,  and  Farnam,  '74,  in  Berlin — need 
it  be  said  to  my  great  enjoyment  and  satisfaction? 
Returning  to  America  in  the  fall  of  1896,  I  entered 
the  Yale  Law  School  and  passed  two  delightful  years 
in  New  Haven,  graduating  with  the  degree  of  LL.B. 
in  the  Class  of  '78.  I  thereupon  began  the  practice  of 
law  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  my  home  and  native  city,  in 
the  office  of  Mr.  Luther  M.  Reynolds,  an  old  and 
well-known  lawyer  there. 

"After  a  year  or  more  of  strenuous  endeavor  I 
suffered  a  serious  breakdown  in  health  and  passed 
through  an  acute  illness  which  put  me  out  of  commis- 
sion  for   some   time   and   reduced   me   to   a   state    of 


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HENRY    AMMON    JAMES 


amazing  humility.  My  recovery  was  in  defiance  of  the 
physicians,  who  got  even  with  me  by  prescribing  for  me 
for  the  future  an  existence  devoid  of  excitement  and 
strenuous  effort — a  warning  which  I  have  apparently 
heeded.  In  pursuance  of  my  convalescence  I  made  a 
voyage  in  a  sailing  ship  to  South  America  in  the 
summer  of  1880. 

"I  resumed  the  practice  of  law,  in  rather  a  leisurely 
fashion,  in  New  York  City,  in  1881,  serving  at  first 
as  clerk  to  Major  Edward  Heaton,  '69  (now  deceased) . 
Later  I  occupied  for  about  a  year  and  a  half  the 
position  of  managing  clerk  in  the  law  office  of  Anderson 
&  Howland,  of  which  Henry  E.  Howland,  '54,  was  a 
member,  and  my  close  intimacy  with  him  since  that  time 
I  count  as  the  chief  fruit  of  that  connection.  I  then 
took  offices  in  association  with  Howard  Mansfield,  '71, 


126  BIOGRAPHIES 

and  continued  in  that  pleasant  association  for  about  ten 
years.  Circumstances  devolved  upon  me  the  care  of 
properties  belonging  to  relatives  and  turned  me  aside 
from  the  more  active  practice  of  my  profession,  and  the 
struggle  for  its  honors,  for  which  I  was  also  perhaps 
otherwise  little  fitted.  In  the  management  of  these 
affairs  I  found  congenial  occupation  without  too  strenu- 
ous effort,  and  sufficient  compensation,  added  to  a 
modest  patrimony,  to  supply  my  material  wants. 

"My  marriage,  the  birth  and  care  of  my  children,  the 
love  of  my  wife,  filled  my  life  amply  for  a  brief  hour 
with  the  homely  romance  of  humanity,  and  her  passing 
has  left  me  with  memories,  and  thereby  no  particular 
purpose  or  ambition  save  the  upbringing  of  my  children 
and  their  welfare  and  happiness. 

"I  have  never  held  any  public  office  as  far  as  I  can 
remember,  and  am  guiltless  of  print,  unless  I  be  held 
accountable  for  the  publication  by  Henry  Holt  & 
Company,  at  the  instance  and  expense  of  the  Kingsley 
Trust  Association  of  New  Haven,  of  an  essay  on 
'Communism  in  America,'  a  treatise  now  universally 
disregarded  by  an  inept  and  heedless  world." 

Frank  Jenkins 

Coal  Merchant 

Residence — The    Ansonia,    Seventy-fourth    Street    and    Broadway, 

New  York  City 

Business  address — 1   Broadway,  New  York  City 

Born  March  19,  1851,  in  Boonton,  N.  J.,  the  son  of  George  and 
Hannah  Morgan  Jenkins. 

He  prepared  at  Mowry  and  Goff's  School,  Providence,  R.  I., 
and   entered  college  with   the   Class   of   '73,  but  owing  to   illness 


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FRANK    JENKINS 


remained  out   for  a  year  and  joined  '74   at  the  beginning  of  its 
Freshman  year. 
He  is  unmarried. 


Jenkins  writes: 

"Until  a  year  or  so  ago  I  kept  Boonton,  N.  J.,  as 
my  permanent  address,  although  I  have  been  in  busi- 
ness in  New  York  since  graduation.  When  I  first 
came  to  New  York  I  went  to  live  with  General  H.  C. 
King  in  Brooklyn,  who  was  an  intimate  friend  of 
Henry  Ward  Beecher.  Through  this  connection  I 
became  secretary  of  Henry  Ward  Beecher,  and  was 
connected  with  his  paper,  the  Christian  Union,  in 
various  positions,  being  the  publisher  from  1878  until 
June,  1879,  when  I  went  into  the  banking  firm  of 
W.  B.  Hatch  &  Company,  as  a  junior  partner.     In 


128  BIOGRAPHIES 

1881  the  firm  of  Collins,  Bouden  k  Jenkins  was  formed 
and  continued  in  business  until  1887,  when  the  firm, 
owing  to  the  death  of  the  senior  partner,  became 
Bouden  k  Jenkins  and  remained  in  business  until  June 
10,  1890. 

"If  I  had  retired  from  business  in  1884,  I  would 
have  had  a  very  comfortable  fortune,  but  our  firm  was 
induced  to  go  into  a  railroad  enterprise,  and  joined  a 
syndicate  to  build  the  Lackawanna  k  Pittsburgh 
Railroad,  now  known  as  the  Pittsburgh,  Shawmut  k 
Northern  Railroad,  of  which  Frank  Sullivan  Smith,  '72, 
is  now  receiver.  This  venture  proved  to  be  a  most 
unfortunate  undertaking,  not  only  involving  our  firm 
to  an  amount  exceeding  one  million  dollars,  but  sub- 
sequently causing  the  failure  of  Marquand  k  Company. 
Our  firm  made  an  assignment  in  1890. 

"In  1893  I  became  the  financial  secretary  of  Merritt 
Brothers  of  Duluth,  Minn.,  who  at  that  time  were  the 
largest  owners  in  the  Mesaba  Ore  Range  of  Minnesota. 
They  were  large  borrowers  and  lost  most  of  their 
properties  when  their  loans  matured  in  1894.  I  then 
went  to  Cuba,  and  became  the  agent  for  some  manga- 
nese mines  which  were  then  considered  the  largest 
known  deposit  of  manganese  in  the  world.  As  soon 
as  the  railroad  was  completed  the  insurrection  broke 
out  which  was  followed  by  the  Spanish- American  War, 
and  the  property  was  bought  by  the  Carnegie  Steel 
Company.  The  two  greatest  chances  that  I  had  of 
regaining  my  lost  fortune  had  gone,  and  not  knowing 
how  to  make  bricks  without  straw,  I  went  into  the 
wholesale  coal  business,  my  present  occupation. 

"When  my  troubles  began  I  resigned  from  the 
following  clubs:    the  Lawyers,  the  Down  Town  Asso- 


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ciation,  the  Manhattan,  the  Racquet,  the  Lambs,  the 
Players,  the  Seawanhaka  Yacht,  and  three  fishing  and 
shooting  clubs.  I  still  keep  my  membership  in  the 
University  Club,  which  I  joined  in  1879,  and  also  in 
the  Cumberland  Club  of  Portland,  Maine,  and  the 
Country  Club  of  Westchester,  N.  Y. 

"I  look  upon  my  association  with  Mr.  Beecher  as 
the  happiest  period  of  my  life.  I  traveled  with  him 
extensively  and  naturally  met  many  of  his  friends, 
among  whom  I  formed  lasting  friendships.  I  enjoyed 
particularly  delightful  companionships  with  Charles 
Dudley  Warner,  Lawrence  Hutton,  Clarence  Stedman, 
Tom  ]STast,  Dean  Hole,  Dr.  Parker  (of  London), 
Mark  Twain,  Bill  Nye,  James  Whitcomb  Riley,  Ike 
Bromley,  Max  O'Rell,  Henry  Watterson,  and  many 
other  brilliant  and  interesting  men.  When  a  member 
of  the  Lambs  and  Players,  I  had  very  pleasant 
acquaintances  and  many  friends  among  the  leading 
actors  of  our  day.  I  often  met  Lester  Wallack,  Edwin 
Booth,  Jefferson,  John  McCullogh,  Jim  Lewis,  John 
Gilbert,  Harry  Becket,  Harry  Montague,  and  a  score 
of  others  of  the  old  school,  and  many  who  are  now 
prominent  on  our  modern  stage. 

"Well — I  have  said  enough — I  am  neither  a  captain 
of  industry  from  Pittsburgh,  nor  am  I  serving  time  in 
the  Atlanta  prison.  After  many  vicissitudes  and  ups 
and  downs  I  have  come  out  of  it  all  in  good  health 
and  spirits,  and  am  ready  to  meet  you  all  at  our  next 
reunion." 

"Pigmaei  gigantum  humeris  impositi  plus  quam 
ipsi  gigantes  vident" 


130  BIOGRAPHIES 

Charles  Frederick  Joy- 
Lawyer  and  Recorder  of  Deeds 
Address — 4954  Lindell  Boulevard,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Born  December  11,  1849,  in  Jacksonville,  111.,  the  son  of 
Charles   and  Georgianna   E.  A.   Joy. 

He  prepared  at  Clark  Seminary,  Aurora,  111. 

He  was  married  in  October,  1879,  to  Lillian  A.  Ordway,  of 
Hartford,   Conn.,   who   died   December    19,    1880. 

He  was  married  May  11,  1895,  at  San  Mateo,  Calif.,  to  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Ina  (Grant)  Ryer,  daughter  of  Michael  Charles  Grant, 
land  owner.     They  have  no  children. 

After  graduation  Joy  spent  one  year  at  Shamokin, 
Pa.,  preparing  a  young  man  and  a  young  woman,  the 
one  for  admission  to  Yale  College  and  the  other  for 
admission  to  Vassar  College.  While  teaching  he 
studied  law  in  the  office  of  George  W.  Ryan,  then  a 
prominent  practitioner  at  the  Northumberland  County 
Bar.  In  September  of  the  year  following,  1875,  Joy 
proceeded  to  St.  Louis  to  engage  in  the  practice  of 
the  law  and  has  lived  there  continuously  since  that  date. 
In  September,  1875,  he  was  admitted  to  the  Missouri 
Bar  and  opened  a  law  office  at  the  corner  of  Fourth 
and  Market  Streets  in  partnership  with  Joseph  R. 
Harris,  and  has  since  practiced  law  in  St.  Louis  with 
several  different  partners. 

In  1892  he  was  candidate  on  the  Republican  ticket 
for  representative  in  Congress,  and  was  elected  and 
sworn  in  to  the  Fifty- third  Congress  on  March  4,  1893, 
at  the  same  time  that  Mr.  Cleveland  commenced  his 
second  term  as  President  of  the  United  States.  Joy 
was  reelected  to  the  four  succeeding  Congresses  and 
closed  his  term  of  office  on  March  3,   1903,  having 


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CHARLES    FREDERICK    JOY 


served  ten  years,  four  years  under  the  administration  of 
President  Cleveland,  four  years  under  the  administra- 
tion of  President  McKinley,  and  two  years  under  the 
administration  of  President  Roosevelt.  During  his 
incumbency  in  the  House  of  Representatives  he  served 
first  under  Charles  R.  Crisp,  Democratic  speaker,  and 
afterwards  under  Thomas  B.  Reed,  David  G.  Hender- 
son and  Joseph  G.  Cannon,  Republican  speakers,  and 
was  a  warm  personal  friend  of  all  the  speakers  and  the 
presidents  under  whom  he  served.  In  November,  1906, 
Joy  was  elected  recorder  of  deeds  of  the  city  of  St. 
Louis,  which  position  he  still  holds. 

He  has  been  connected  with  the  following  law  firms : 
From  1875  until  1879  with  the  firm  of  Harris  &  Joy; 
from  1880  until  1884  with  the  firm  of  Joy  &  Sampson, 


132  BIOGRAPHIES 

and  from  1884  until  1892  with  Joy  &  Kribben.  Since 
the  latter  date  he  has  not  been  associated  with  any 
partners. 

From  1885  until  1898  he  was  president  of  the 
Standard  School  Book  Company,  a  corporation 
engaged  in  making  school  books  which  supplied  a  large 
part  of  the  United  States,  by  contract,  with  all  books 
used  in  the  public  schools.  This  corporation  was 
dissolved  in  1898. 

Joy  is  a  member  of  the  St.  Louis,  Mercantile,  Oasis, 
Aero,  Elks,  and  Western  Rowing  clubs  and  the 
Amateur  Athletic  Association,  all  of  St.  Louis.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Chevy  Chase  Club  of  Washington, 
D.  C,  and  of  the  New  York  Yale  Club.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  Missouri  Historical  Society,  the  St. 
Louis  Art  Museum,  the  Artists'  Guild  and  the  Franklin 
Club  (a  literary  organization)  of  St.  Louis.  He  has 
visited  every  one  of  the  United  States  during  the  past 
thirty-five  years,  and  has  been  twice  abroad  visiting 
England,  Ireland,  Scotland,  France,  Germany, 
Switzerland,  Italy,  Spain,  and  the  upper  coast  of 
Africa. 


Robert  Weeks  Kelley 

Cement  Manufacturer 

Residence — 1   West  Fifty-fourth  Street,  New   York  City 

Business  address — 26  Beaver  Street,  New  York  City 

Born  March  2,   1853,  in  New  York  City,  the  son  of  James   E. 
and  Roxanna  (Drew)   Kelley. 

He  prepared  at  H.  H.  Fay's  School,  Newport,  R.  I. 
He  is  unmarried. 


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133 


ROBERT    WEEKS    KELLEY 


Kelley  wrote  in  1910: 

"After  graduation  I  traveled  west,  and  later  located 
in  Baltimore,  Md.,  for  a  short  time,  and  then  in  Phila- 
delphia as  secretary  of  the  Philadelphia  Manufacturing 
Company.  About  1877  I  went  to  Oswego,  as  account- 
ant for  the  Georgian  Bay  Lumber  Company.  I  left 
there  in  1881,  and  from  1881  to  1888  lived  in  Litchfield, 
Conn.,  as  president  of  the  Echo  Farm  Company.  In 
1888  I  was  elected  president  of  the  Kanawha  &  Ohio 
Railway  Company,  and  was  later  receiver  of  that  com- 
pany. I  then  became  president  of  the  Kanawha  & 
Michigan  Railway  Company,  and  lived  in  Charleston, 
W.  Va.  In  1890  I  moved  to  New  York  and  joined 
the  New  York  Stock  Exchange.  From  1900  to  1904 
I  lived  in  Calais,  Maine,  as  general  manager  of  the 
Washington    County    Railway    Company.      In    1904 


134  BIOGRAPHIES 

removed  to  New  York  and  became  president  of  the 
Brewster  Oil  Company,  which  position  I  held  during 
1904  and  1905.  In  the  latter  part  of  1905  and  part 
of  1906  I  traveled  in  Europe.  In  the  spring  of  1908 
I  was  assistant  to  the  receiver  of  the  Third  Avenue 
Railroad  Company,  president  of  the  Kingsbridge 
Railway  Company,  and  was  elected  president  of  the 
Warren-Burnham  Company,  Vulcan  Portland  Cement 
Company,  Ltd.,  the  Virginia  Portland  Cement  Com- 
pany, and  vice-president  of  the  Colloseus  Cement  Com- 
pany, which  positions  I  still  hold.  I  am  also  director 
of  the  Canada  Cement  Company,  Ltd. 

"I  have  lived  in  New  York  City  since  1904  and  am 
a  member  of  the  University,  Yale  and  Ardsley  clubs. 
As  to  writings,  none  of  my  enemies  have  yet  detected 
me  writing  a  book." 

William  Kelly 

Mine  Manager 
Address — Vulcan,  Mich. 

Born  in  New  York  City,  the  son  of  Robert  and  Arietta  A. 
Kelly. 

He  prepared  at  a  private  school  conducted  by  Dr.  W.  C. 
Wilkinson  at  Tarrytown,  N.  Y. 

He  was  married  June  24,  1886,  in  Hopewell,  Pa.,  to  Miss  Annie 
Ashcom,  daughter  of  John  Wesley  Ashcom  (deceased),  of 
Hopewell,  Pa.,  owner  of  an  iron  foundry.  They  have  had  one 
child: 

William  Ashcom,  born  August  31,  1887,  died  August  20,  1898. 

Kelly  wrote  in  1910: 

"Immediately  after  graduation  Horace  Chittenden, 
Arthur  Dodge,  Frank  Olmsted,  and  I  went  abroad. 
We  landed  at  Queenstown  and  were  together  in  Ireland, 


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135 


WILLIAM     KELLY 


but  after  reaching  London,  Frank  and  Arthur  went 
to  the  Continent,  while  Horace  and  I  accompanied 
Horace's  parents  and  sisters  in  a  tour  through  England 
and  Scotland  with  a  short  trip  to  Paris  afterward. 

"Returning  to  New  York  in  October,  I  entered  the 
regular  course  of  the  School  of  Mines,  Columbia 
University,  and  graduated  with  the  degree  of  M.E., 
in  June,  1877.  An  honorary  election  to  the  Columbia 
Chapter  of  the  scientific  society  of  Tau  Beta  Pi  was 
given  me  in  1904. 

"The  summer  of  1876  was  spent  at  Phoenixville,  Pa., 
in  the  laboratory  of  the  Chemical  Copper  Company 
under  Dr.  James  Douglas.  Professor  T.  S terry  Hunt 
and  Professor  Benjamin  Silliman  were  frequent 
visitors ;  all  three  men  were  brilliant  conversationalists. 
After  graduating  from  the  School  of  Mines,  I  went 


136  BIOGRAPHIES 

into  the  office  of  my  uncle's  estate  in  New  York.  A 
part  of  the  year  1878  I  worked  for  the  Himrod  Fur- 
nace Company  of  Youngstown,  Ohio,  as  chemist  and 
assistant  bookkeeper.  The  greater  part  of  the  years 
1879-80  I  was  at  Phoenixville,  assisting  Dr.  Douglas 
at  the  copper  works.  In  December,  1880,  I  went  to 
Riddlesburg,  Bedford  County,  Pa.,  as  assistant  mana- 
ger of  the  Kemble  Coal  &  Iron  Company,  and  was 
there  until  its  failure  in  the  summer  of  1885.  During 
that  summer  I  was  appointed  by  Governor  Pattison, 
a  member  of  the  Board  of  Examiners  of  Bituminous 
Mine  Inspectors  of  Pennsylvania,  and  was  elected 
president  by  the  board.  The  work  of  this  board  was 
an  interesting  experience.  In  the  fall  I  accepted  the 
position  of  superintendent  of  the  Glamorgan  Iron 
Company  at  Le  wist  own,  Pa.,  but  returned  to  Riddles- 
burg in  December,  1885,  as  assistant  manager  of  the 
Kemble  Iron  Company.  In  June,  1889,  I  resigned 
to  accept  a  position  in  Vulcan,  Mich.,  as  general 
superintendent  of  the  Penn  Iron  Mining  Company,  a 
branch  of  the  Cambria  Iron  Company,  now  Cambria 
Steel  Company,  of  Johnston,  Pa.,  becoming  general 
manager  two  years  later,  which  position  I  still  retain. 
In  August,  1902,  I  also  became  general  manager  of  the 
Republic  Iron  Company,  whose  mines  are  located  about 
sixty  miles  north  of  Vulcan. 

"I  am  treasurer  of  the  Penn  Store  Company  of 
Vulcan,  and  vice-president  of  the  Commercial  Bank 
of  Iron  Mountain,  Mich.  I  was  superintendent  of  the 
Methodist  Sunday  School  at  Vulcan  for  fifteen  years, 
resigning  in  1908.  I  am  president  of  the  Board  of 
Education  of  Norway  Township,  and  chairman  of  the 
Board  of  County  Road  Commissioners  of  Dickinson 


GRADUATES  137 


County.  In  June,  1897,  I  was  appointed  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Control  of  the  Michigan  College  of 
Mines  at  Houghton,  Mich.,  of  which  board  I  have  been 
chairman  since  June,  1904.  In  June,  1909,  I  was 
appointed  a  member  of  the  Public  Domain  Commission 
of  Michigan.  Formerly  I  was  a  Democrat,  but  in 
1895  I  made  'sound  money'  speeches  in  favor  of 
Mclvinley,  and  have  since  been  a  Republican. 

"I  am  a  member  of  the  following  societies  and  clubs: 
American  Institute  of  Mining  Engineers  (councilor 
1910)  ;  Institution  of  Mining  and  Metallurgy  of  Lon- 
don, England;  Mining  and  Metallurgical  Society  of 
America;  Lake  Superior  Mining  Institute  (president 
for  the  year  1899)  ;  Society  for  the  Promotion  of 
Engineering  Education;  American  Association  for  the 
Advancement  of  Science ;  National  Geographic  Society ; 
University  Club,  New  York;  University  Club, 
Chicago;  Pine  Grove  Golf  Club,  Iron  Mountain, 
Mich.;    and  Houghton  Club,  Houghton,  Mich. 

"I  have  not  been  abroad  since  1874,  but  Mrs.  Kelly 
and  I  have  made  trips  to  Quebec,  Halifax,  and  Cape 
Breton  in  1900,  to  Florida  in  1904,  to  Cuba,  including 
trips  to  iron  mines  east  and  north  of  Santiago,  in  1908, 
and  to  the  Pacific  Coast  in  1906  and  1909.  In  the 
former  of  these,  in  Southern  California,  we  met  Lyon 
and  had  several  meetings  with  George  Dickerman  and 
his  wife  a  short  time  before  they  were  caught  in  the  San 
Francisco  disaster.  In  the  fall  of  1910  we  visited  the 
Isthmus  of  Panama. 

"I  have  attended  all  the  reunions  of  the  Class  includ- 
ing the  Bi-centennial,  with  the  exception  of  the 
meetings  in  1889  and  1899,  and  hope  to  attend  several 
more." 


138  BIOGRAPHIES 

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David  Andrew  Kennedy 

Teacher,  retired 
Residence — 245   Dwight  Street,  New  Haven,   Conn. 

Born  March  22,  1851,  in  New  York  City,  the  son  of  John 
and  Jane  Lee  Kennedy. 

He  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Haven, 
Conn. 

He  was  married  December  31,  1877,  in  New  Haven,  to  Miss 
Charlotte  Adriance  Clark,  daughter  of  Joseph  W.  Clark,  a 
carriage  manufacturer  of  New  Haven.     They  have  one  child: 

Chauncey  Clark,  Yale  '04,  born  in  Orange,  N.  J.,  February 
17,   1883. 

Kennedy  wrote  in  1910: 

"After  graduation,  two  years  (1874-1876)  were  spent 
in  Morristown,  N.  J.,  teaching  under  Perry,  Yale  '71. 
Returning  to  New  Haven,  the  next  two  years  (1876- 
1878)  saw  me  in  the  graduate  department  studying 
under  Whitney,  Packard  and  Thacher,  and  gaining 
the  degree  of  Ph.D.  The  following  year  I  taught  in 
the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Haven,  and  in 


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DAVID    ANDREW    KENNEDY 


1879  went  to  Orange,  N.  J.,  as  classical  master  in  the 
Dearborn-Morgan  School.  Within  two  years  I  pur- 
chased an  interest  in  the  school  and  became  co-principal, 
which  position  I  have  held  up  to  the  present  time.  The 
school  was  co-educational  and  in  1901,  with  Mead, 
Yale  '84,  I  founded  a  boys'  preparatory  school,  called 
Carteret  Academy,  while  still  keeping  my  connection 
with  the  older  school.  Ill  health  compelled  me  to 
separate  from  the  latter  school  in  1906. 

"The  New  England  Society  of  the  Oranges,  the 
Essex  County  Yale  Association,  the  Schoolmasters' 
Association  of  New  York  and  Vicinity  (of  which  three 
organizations  I  have  been  president),  the  Association 
of  Colleges  and  Preparatory  Schools  of  the  Middle 
States,  the  Head  Masters'  Association  of  the  United 
States,  the  Archaeological  Society  and  the  Greek  Club 


140  BIOGRAPHIES 

of  Essex  County  claim  me  as  a  member,  as  also  the 
Graduates  Club  of  New  Haven. 

"My  life  has  been  quiet  and  uneventful  in  my  efforts 
to  be  a  useful  citizen  and  a  good  school  master,  and  in 
my  attempts  to  keep  a  naturally  weak  constitution 
hard  at  work  and  in  good  condition.  As  for  my  travels, 
the  summer  of  1893  was  spent  in  Colorado  regaining 
my  health.  In  1897  I  traveled  with  my  wife  through 
England  and  Scotland.  In  1900  my  son  and  I  were 
in  France,  Germany,  Italy,  and  had  many  pleasant 
tramps  in  Switzerland,  and  again  in  1905  with  my  wife 
I  traveled  through  Italy,  Austria,  and  Germany. 
Study,  reading,  and  travel  may  still  be  said  to  be  my 
favorite  recreations,  and  the  classmates  whom  I  have 
seen  most  frequently  have  been  Dickerman,  Stark- 
weather and  Morris." 

His  writings  have  consisted  wholly  of  educational 
topics  published  in  proceedings  of  societies ;  commence- 
ment addresses,  and  addresses  to  schools. 

A  runaway  accident  in  Sullivan  County,  N.  Y.,  in 
July,  1910,  and  a  subsequent  illness  prevented  his 
return  to  work  and  he  has  been  living  quietly  in  New 
Haven  ever  since. 

Alfred  Quinton  Kennett 

Residence — 5099  Waterman  Avenue,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Mail  address — Care  Brown,  Shipley  &  Company,   123   Pall  Mall, 
London,  England 

Born  July  25,  1854,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  the  son  of  William 
Covington  and  Julia  Clapp  Kennett. 

He  spent  one  year  at  Washington  University,  St.  Louis,  joining 
'74   at  the   beginning  of   Sophomore  year. 

He  is  unmarried. 


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ALFRED    QUINTON    KENNETT 


Kennett  wrote  in  1910: 

"I  was  born  in  St.  Louis  and  resided  there  until 
1884,  when  I  removed  to  Carrollton,  111.,  where  I 
resided  for  eight  years.  In  1892  I  returned  to  St. 
Louis,  where  I  have  since  resided. 

"Entering  the  St.  Louis  Law  School,  the  Law  School 
of  Washington  University,  after  graduation,  I  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1876.  In  1879  I  abandoned  the 
legal  profession  and  during  the  succeeding  twenty-two 
years  my  business  life  was  somewhat  desultory,  mainly 
mercantile.  In  1901  I  entered  the  service  of  Washing- 
ton University  in  the  capacity  of  general  assistant  and 
am  still  in  its  service  as  secretary  and  treasurer. 

"I  am  a  member  of  the  University  Club  of  St.  Louis, 
the  Belleview  Country  Club,  the  St.  Louis  Academy  of 
Science,  the  Missouri  Historical  Societv,  the  St.  Louis 


142  BIOGRAPHIES 

Yale  Alumni  Association,  and  the  St.  Louis  Civic 
League. 

"In  1877,  at  the  close  of  the  great  railroad  strike  of 
that  year,  I  entered  the  National  Guard  of  Missouri 
as  a  private,  resigning  in  1879  as  a  first  lieutenant.  In 
1894  I  reentered  the  military  service  of  Missouri  as 
major  in  the  First  Infantry  Regiment,  National  Guard 
of  Missouri.  When  the  Spanish  war  broke  out  in  the 
spring  of  1898,  my  regiment  was  mobilized  as  a  part 
of  the  United  States  Volunteers  then  raised.  I  accom- 
panied my  regiment  to  Camp  George  H.  Thomas, 
Chickamauga,  on  May  19,  1898,  and  remained  there 
until  September  4,  1898.  My  regiment  was  then 
ordered  to  its  home,  St.  Louis,  and  on  October  31,  I 
was  mustered  out  of  the  service  of  the  United  States, 
ranking  then  as  senior  major  of  the  regiment.  My 
military  service,  both  national  and  state,  ended  there. 

"My  travels  have  been  entirely  in  North  America. 
1  have  visited  Cuba  and  Mexico.  During  the  period 
from  1879  to  1889  my  main  travel  was  in  the  Rocky 
Mountains,  camping,  hunting,  and  fishing.  My  favor- 
ite recreation  is  the  royal  and  ancient  game  of  golf. 
My  meetings  with  classmates  are  few  and  far  between. 
The  only  ones  I  meet  at  all  frequently  are  F.  A.  Cline 
and  Charles  F.  Joy." 

Failing  health  compelled  Kennett  to  resign  from  his 
position  as  secretary  and  treasurer  of  Washington 
University,  St.  Louis,  in  June,  1911.  Following  his 
resignation  he  spent  several  months  in  Europe,  and 
in  May,  1912,  he  went  abroad  again  for  an  indefinite 
stay,  in  search  of  health.  His  mail  address  is  in  care 
of  Brown,  Shipley  &  Company,  123  Pall  Mall,  London, 
England. 


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EVERTON    JUDSON    LATIMER 


Everton  Judson  Latimer 

Lawyer 
Address — Cleveland,  Ohio 

Born  October  14,  1849,  in  Norwalk,  Ohio,  the  son  of  Cortland 
Lucas  and  Charlotte  McEwen  Latimer. 

He  was  at  Western  Reserve  College  one  year  as  a  Freshman 
and  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  '73,  remaining  with  them  until 
June,  1872.  He  became  a  member  of  '74  at  the  beginning  of 
Junior  year. 

He  was  married  August  15,  1878,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  to  Miss 
Ella  C.  Dodge,  Cleveland  Academy  '72,  daughter  of  Henry  H. 
Dodge,  a  lawyer  of  Cleveland.     They  have  had  one  child: 

Irene   Battell,  born  and  died  in   1889. 

After  graduation  Latimer  read  law  with  his  father 
in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  until  the  fall  of  1875,  when  he 


144  BIOGRAPHIES 

spent  one  term  at  Columbia  College  Law  School.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  Cleveland  Bar  in  September,  1876, 
and  has  since  practiced  law  in  that  city.  He  has 
been  engaged  chiefly  in  office  business  and  in  charge  of 
estates,  executions  of  trusts,  and  so  forth. 


John  Leal 

Principal  and  Owner  of  Leal's  School  for  Boys,  Plainfield,  N.  J. 
Residence — 949  Central  Avenue,  Plainfield,  N.  J. 

Born  January  1,  1849,  in  Meredith,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Alexander 
T.  and  Margaret  Leal. 

He  prepared  at  Walton,  N.  Y. 

He  was  married  January  30,  1879,  in  Manchester,  Vt.,  to  Miss 
Cornelia  H.  Way,  who  died  July  22,  1890.  He  was  married  on 
April  3,  1893,  in  Plainfield,  N.  J.,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Dudley  Way 
of  Manchester,  Vt.,  Teachers'  College  (N.  Y.)  '90,  daughter  of 
Henry  P.  Way,  a  business  man  of  Manchester.  Leal  has  three 
children : 

Henry  Way,  born   September   12,    1880,   in  Elizabeth,   N.   J. 

Margaret,  born   March   19,    1886,   in   Plainfield,   N.   J. 

Dorothy  Dudley,  born  March   15,   1894,  in  Plainfield,  N.   J. 

Leal  wrote  in  1910: 

"The  subject  of  this  sketch  began  teaching  in 
September,  1874,  taking  charge  of  the  high  school  at 
Warren,  Mass.,  where  for  two  years  he  managed  the 
school  and  taught  most  of  the  subjects  in  its  curriculum- 
He  has  yet  vivid  recollections  of  physics  and  botany 
and  physiology  dug  out  under  the  spur  of  necessity,  and 
is  confident  that  he  spent  fifteen  times  as  much  energy 
in  preparation  as  did  his  pupils.  The  following  year 
he  was  principal  of  the  high  school  at  Key  West,  Fla., 
where   he   added   much   experience   in   discipline    and 


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JOHN    LEAL 


gained  a  knowledge  of  that  region  which  was  of  great 
value.  During  the  year  1877-78  he  taught  mathema- 
tics at  the  Columbia  Grammar  School,  New  York  City, 
under  Colonel  C.  A.  Miles,  for  whom  he  had  and  still 
has  much  esteem.  In  1878  he  moved  to  Elizabeth, 
N.  J.,  to  take  a  position  in  the  Pingry  School,  where 
he  remained  until  1882.  This  period  was  an  important 
one  and  settled  permanently  the  question  of  vocation. 
Then  the  attraction  of  Plainfleld,  X.  J.,  caused  him 
to  open  his  own  school  there,  and  he  has  been  occupied 
in  it  for  twenty-nine  years  preparing  boys  for  college. 
"These  years  have  been  uneventful,  so  far  as  the 
writer  can  judge.  He  has  been  far  from  the  madding 
crowd.  He  has  lived  with  boys  three  hundred  and 
sixty-five  days  per  year.     He  has  therefore  associated 


146  BIOGRAPHIES 

less  with  men  than  his  classmates  have  done.  He  has 
had  health  and  energy  in  good  measure  and  constant 
joy  in  work  which  is  able  to  attract  few  men.  He  is 
confident,  however,  that  were  the  fates  to  give  him 
another  chance  he  would  make  the  same  choice,  in  the 
belief  that  no  other  calling  presents  so  large  a  field  for 
service  and  claims  so  great  devotion,  even  though 
devotion  means  sacrifice." 


Theodore  Frelinghuysen  Leighton 

Teacher 

Residence — 3716  Lake  Avenue,  Chicago,  111. 

Business  address — Hyde   Park   High   School,  Chicago,   111. 

Born  August  16,  1849,  in  Tunkhannock,  Pa.,  the  son  of  Nathan 
and  Ruth  Gardner  Leighton. 

He  prepared  at  the  Blairstown  Presbyterial  Academy  and  Mount 
Retirement  Seminary,  both  New  Jersey  schools. 

He  was  married  July  26,  1875,  in  Hudson,  N.  Y.,  to  Miss 
Gertrude  Amelia  Scofield,  an  ex-member  of  the  Class  of  '66,  New 
Britain  (Conn.)  Normal  School,  daughter  of  Charles  W.  Scofield, 
a  contractor  and  builder  of  Stamford,  Conn.  They  have  had 
six  children: 

Hugh  Guthrie,  born  in  Jewett,  Greene  County,  N.  Y.,  June  25, 
1877,   died  in  Chicago,   111.,  March   1,    1903. 

Kenneth,  born  in  Tunkhannock,  Pa.,  August  8,  1880. 

Ruth  Gardner,  born  in  Tunkhannock,  Pa.,  May  6,  1883,  died 
in  Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  March   14,   1885. 

Cordelia  Ingersoll,  born  and  died  in  Tunkhannock,  Pa.,  May 
6,   1883. 

Alden  Flagg,  born  in  Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  January  8,  1885,  died 
February  19,  1885. 

Helen  Constance,  born  in  Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  November   1,   1886. 


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THEODORE    FRELINGHUYSEN    LEIGHTON 


Leighton  writes: 

"After  graduation,  intending  ultimately  to  study 
law,  I  sought  an  immediate  engagement  to  teach. 
This  I  obtained  under  the  patronage  of  some  wealthy 
gentlemen  of  Stamford,  as  assembler  and  teacher  of 
a  class  of  boys  in  that  borough.  In  1876  I  removed 
to  Norwalk,  Conn.,  to  teach  a  like  school,  and  thence, 
in  1877,  to  Yonkers,  X.  Y.,  where  I  continued  ten 
years  at  the  head  of  a  preparatory  school  for  boys.  In 
1887  I  went  to  Portland,  Me.,  where,  with  a  partner, 
I  taught  and  directed  a  military  school.  In  1888  I 
sold  to  my  partner  and  was  the  head  for  one  year  of 
the  mathematics  department  of  Washburn  College, 
Topeka,  Kans.  The  next  year  I  had  charge  of  the 
department  of  Greek  in  the  same  institution.     In  1890, 


148  BIOGRAPHIES 

I  was  elected  principal  of  Erie  Academy,  Erie,  Pa. 
In  1891,  I  came  to  Chicago  to  teach  in  one  of  the  high 
schools  of  that  city  and  was  in  the  Lake  High  School 
for  one  year,  and  in  the  South  Division  High  School 
for  three  years.  Since  1895  I  have  been  continuously 
in  the  Hyde  Park  High  School,  instructing,  most  of 
the  time,  in  mathematics. 

"I  am  a  member  of  the  Hamilton  Club  of  Chicago. 
I  am  fond  of  attending  good  baseball  exhibitions,  a  par- 
tiality continued  from  college  days,  and  strengthened 
by  the  participation  in  sports  of  my  son  Hugh,  who  was 
substitute  catcher  and  center  in  Stagg's  University  of 
Chicago  Baseball  and  Football  teams  from  1896  to 
1900. 

"I  see  infrequently,  Harrison,  Reading,  and  Leland 
of  our  Class,  and  occasionally  Harry  Robbins  and 
Aldis.  I  have  corresponded  with  my  college  chum, 
Hartwell,  in  Montana.  The  state  of  my  health  kept 
me  from  attending  the  thirty-fifth  year  reunion  of  the 
Class  last  year,  the  only  one  which  occurred  late  enough 
in  June  to  make  it  possible  for  me  to  get  away  from 
my  duties  in  season  for  it." 

Lorenzo  Leland 

Banker 
Address — Care  First  National  Bank,  Ottawa,  111. 

Born  October  17,  1853,  in  Ottawa,  111.,  the  son  of  Lorenzo  and 
Martha  Leland. 

He  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,   Mass. 

He  was  married  October  9,  1878,  in  Ottawa,  111.,  to  Miss  Fannie 
C.  Hamilton,  an  ex-member  of  the  Class  of  '79,  Northwestern 
University,    daughter    of    H.    M.    Hamilton,    a    manufacturer    of 


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LORENZO    LELAND 


Ottawa,  who  spent  the  last  fifteen  years  of  his  life  in  Pasadena. 
Calif. 

A  son,  Hugh  H.,  born  September  22,  1880,  now  resides  on  an 
orange  grove  near  Cucamonga,  Calif.,  with  his  wife  and  two  sons. 

Leland  writes: 

"I  studied  law  for  two  years  immediately  after 
graduation,  at  the  same  time  teaching  for  a  while  in 
the  high  school  at  Ottawa.  In  the  fall  of  1876  I  was 
admitted  to  the  practice  of  law  on  examination  before 
the  supreme  court  of  the  state  of  Illinois.  Owen  F. 
Aldis,  '74,  was  admitted  at  the  same  time.  Then  I 
went  first  to  Falls  City,  Neb.,  and  next  to  El  Dorado, 
Ivans.,  where  I  practiced  law  diligently  in  partnership 
with  my  brother,  C.  A.  Leland,  '65,  until  1880,  when 
I  returned  to  Ottawa,  111.      I  formed  a  partnership 


150  BIOGRAPHIES 

with  Colonel  C.  H.  Brusk,  which  continued  for  some 
years  until  his  health  failed,  when  I  continued  to  prac- 
tice by  myself  for  a  year  or  so.  Then  I  became  a 
partner  of  T.  E.  MacKinlay,  '66.  After  a  few  years 
we  separated  and  I  carried  on  the  law  business  alone. 
In  1894  I  became  president  of  the  First  National  Bank 
of  Ottawa,  having  previously  acquired  a  considerable 
amount  of  stock  in  said  bank.  I  liked  the  business  and 
gradually  gave  up  the  law  and  devoted  most  of  my 
time  and  attention  to  the  bank.  Its  total  assets  when 
I  commenced  were  less  than  four  hundred  thousand 
dollars  ($400,000).  Now  they  are  over  two  million, 
two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars  ($2,250,000). 
I  am  still  active  in  the  bank  but  take  a  long  vacation 
every  year,  generally  spent  in  southern  California  or 
in  travel. 

"In  a  town  of  this  kind  an  active  man  is  bound  to 
have  a  share  in  most  of  the  local  enterprises.  For 
instance,  I  have  been  a  director  in  a  flint  glass  com- 
pany, president  of  a  plate  glass  company,  director 
in  an  electric  light  company,  also  a  water  power 
company,  and  am  now  vice-president  in  the  King  & 
Hamilton  Company,  manufacturers  of  corn-shellers, 
cultivators,  etc.  For  twenty-five  years  I  have  been  an 
officer  of  the  Ottawa  Building,  Homestead  and  Savings 
Association,  and  there  are  numerous  other  things  in 
which  I  have  a  share.  I  have  been  a  member  of  the 
high  school  board  for  years  and  take  great  interest  in  it. 

"In  the  way  of  amusements  I  am  a  member  of  the 
Boat  Club,  Country  Club  and  others.  Nearly  every 
man  here  who  can  afford  it  owns  a  farm.  I  am  no 
exception  and  am  really  a  good  farmer  by  'proxy.'  I 
can  drive  out  and  watch  the  corn  grow  as  well  as 


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anyone.  I  can  tell  the  difference  between  a  Polled 
Angus  and  a  Hereford  at  sight. 

"After  all,  the  banking  business  suits  me  best.  Our 
board  of  directors  contains  alumni  of  Michigan 
University,  Northwestern,  Columbia,  and  Yale. 

"In  1900  I  took  a  trip  to  Cuba.  In  1903  I  traveled 
extensively  in  Mexico,  and  in  the  summer  of  1906 
traveled  in  Japan,  China,  and  the  Orient.  In  1907  I 
visited  the  British  Isles,  France,  Italy,  and  Switzerland. 
I  have  also  traveled  pretty  well  over  our  own  country, 
including  the  Pacific  Coast.  My  wife  always  goes 
with  me  and  we  travel  for  pleasure  and  general 
information. 

"The  members  of  '74  whom  I  often  see  are  not 
numerous.  I  loaf  and  talk  with  Dr.  W.  K.  Harrison 
in  his  office  in  the  Masonic  Temple,  Chicago,  once  in 
a  while.  Now  and  then  I  see  T.  F.  Leighton  of 
Chicago,  and  when  I  am  in  California  I  often  see 
E.  M.  Lyon,  and  have  had  some  very  pleasant  times 
with  him. 

"On  the  whole  I  can  say  that  life  never  looked  more 
desirable  to  me  than  now." 

Eldridge  Merick  Lyon 

Orange  Grower  and  Packer 
Address — 25   Summit  Avenue,   Redlands,   Calif. 

Born  November  14,  1853,  in  Chicago,  111.,  the  son  of  Isaac  L. 
and  Maria  D.    (Merick)   Lyon. 

He  prepared  at  the  Detroit   (Mich.)   High  School. 

He  was  married  September  18,  1878,  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  to  Miss 
Clara  Grout  .(died  May  2,  1901),  daughter  of  John  R.  Grout, 
general  manager  of  the  Detroit  &  Lake  Superior  Copper  Company 
of  Detroit.     Two  children  were  born  to  them: 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


Alice   Grout,  Wellesley  '02,  born  July   9,    1879. 
Ruth,  Wellesley  '04,  born  December  23,   1881. 
He  was  married  a  second  time  July   16,    1907,  to  Mrs.   Mabel 
Salter  Bliss  of  New  York  City. 

Concerning  his  life  since  graduation  Lyon  writes: 
"My  home  was  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  from  1874  until 
1896,  when  I  moved  to  Redlands,  Calif.,  where  I  have 
lived  since.  In  Detroit  I  was  first  in  the  lumber 
business,  then  president  of  the  Detroit  Carriage  Wood- 
work Company,  and  director  in  the  Brush  Electric 
Light  Company.  Was  a  member  of  the  Detroit  Club 
and  the  Detroit  Country  Club.  On  coming  to  Red- 
lands  was  identified  with  the  orange  industry  and 
for  ten  years  have  been  on  nearly  every  committee 
connected  therewith. 


ELDRIDGE     MERICK    LYON 


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153 


"Besides  my  active  business  interests,  am  a  member 
of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  president  of  the  Univer- 
sity Club,  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Associated  Chari- 
ties, the  Yale  Club  of 
Southern  California, 
headquarters  at  Los 
Angeles,  and  was  presi- 
dent for  one  year  of  the 
Redlands  Country  Club. 

"Have  formed  the  habit 
of  taking  an  annual  vaca- 
tion from  the  middle  of 
July  until  the  first  of 
Xovember,  and  have 
made  six  trips  to  Europe 
and  one  to  China  and 
Japan. 

"When  I  can  take  the 
time  I  enjoy  a  game  of 
golf  but  play  too  little  to 
play  well.     Would  be 

glad  to  have  any  of  the  Class  stop  and  see  me.     The 
few  who  have  called  have  been  in  too  big  a  hurry." 


VALENTINE     MARSH 


*Valentine  Marsh 

Died   1902 

Born  February  15,  1852,  in  New  York  City,  the  son  of  Theodore 
Williamson  Marsh,  a  merchant,  and  Harriet  Anne  (Peters)  Marsh. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  by  Professor  Franklin  B.  Dexter. 

He  was  married  April  24,  1878,  to  Miss  Alice  Wilson  Chase, 
daughter  of  Nelson  Henry  and  Sarah  (Hurdis)  Chase,  of  Albany, 
N.  Y.     They  had  one  daughter: 


154  BIOGRAPHIES 

Minnie  T.,  Rosemary  Hall,  Wallingford  '98,  born  March  12, 
1879. 

After  graduation  Marsh  took  the  course  in  the 
Columbia  Law  School  and  received  the  degree  of 
LL.B.  in  1876.  In  May  following  he  entered  the 
firm  of  Crowell  &  Marsh,  and  was  engaged  in  the 
general  practice  of  law. 

He  was  second  lieutenant  of  the  Ninth  New  York 
Heavy  Artillery  from  1877  to  1882,  first  lieutenant  of 
the  159th  New  York  Infantry  in  1898  and  1899,  and 
commander  of  Company  G,  109th  Regiment,  U.  S.  V., 
New  York,  during  the  Spanish  war.  From  1895  to 
1902  he  was  president  of  one  of  the  District  Republican 
Associations  in  Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  and  in  1901  was 
president  of  the  Board  of  Health  of  that  city. 

He  died  of  apoplexy  after  an  illness  of  several 
months,  at  Yonkers,  on  October  1,  1902.  He  was  in 
his  fifty-first  year. 


*Leoni  Melick 

Died  1908 

Born  May  5,  1851,  near  the  village  of  Light  Street,  Columbia 
County,  Pa.,  the  eleventh  of  the  thirteen  children  of  Jacob  and 
Elizabeth   (Willet)    Melick. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  the  State  Normal  School  in 
Bloomsburg,  Pa. 

He  was  unmarried. 

After  graduation  Melick  traveled  abroad  and  studied 
at  Heidelberg.  Upon  his  return  he  studied  law  in  the 
office  of  Samuel  Clarke  Perkins,  Yale  '48,  LL.D., 
in  Philadelphia,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1877. 


GRADUATES 


155 


Since  then  he  had  been  in  active  practice,  entering  into 
partnership  with  Col.  Sheldon  Potter,  and  after- 
ward with  Col.  Henry  Taylor  Dechert,  University 
of  Pennsylvania  '79,  in 
the  firm  of  Melick,  Pot- 
ter &  Dechert. 

He  was  president  of 
the  Yale  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation of  Philadelphia, 
vice-president  of  the  Art 
Club  of  Philadelphia  and 
of  the  Philadelphia  Bible 
Society,  a  member  of  the 
Library  Committee  of 
the  Law  Association  of 
that  city,  and  an  active 
member  of  the  Arch 
Street  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church. 

He  had  been  ill  for 
about  a  month  and  had 

been  at  Cape  May  for  his  health.  On  his  return  to 
Philadelphia  he  died  of  ursemia,  August  24,  1908,  in 
his  fifty-eighth  year. 


LEONI    MELICK 


♦Ellis  Mendell 

Died  1903 

Born  April  27,  1851,  in  Acushnet,  Bristol  County,  Mass.,  the 
son  of  Ellis  and  Catharine  A.  Mendell. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass. 

He  was  married  May  1,  1879,  to  Miss  Clara  Eliza  Whittlesey, 
of  New  Haven,  daughter  of  Dr.  Charles  Barnes  Whittlesey,  M.D. 


156 


BIOGRAPHIES 


Yale  '43,  and  Esther  Antoinette    (Wilcoxson)    Whittlesey.     They 
had  three  children: 

Elsie,  Vassar  '01,  born  June  7,  1880. 

Clarence  Whittlesey,  Yale  '04,  born  June  3,   1883. 

Katharine  A.,  born  June   19,   1892. 

After  graduation  Mendell  took  the  course  in  the 
Yale  Divinity  School,  receiving  the  degree  of  B.D.  in 
1877,  and  then  spent  six  months  in  California.  In 
1878  he  was  invited  to  supply  the  Congregational 
Church  in  Norwood,  Mass.,  where  he  was  ordained  and 
installed  on  June  4,  1879.  After  a  pastorate  of  ten 
years  he  was  called  to  the  Boylston  Congregational 

Church,  Jamaica  Plain, 
Boston,  where  he  labored 
with  untiring  devotion 
and  marked  effectiveness 
until  his  death  from  ty- 
phoid pneumonia,  May 
20,  1903,  at  the  age  of 
fifty-two. 

In  Memoriam 

Ellis  Mendell  made 
good.    No  one  who  knew 
him  ever  doubted  that 
he  would.     The  quality 
was    there,    and    during 
twenty- four  years  of  pub- 
lic   service   he   wrought 
faithfully  and  well.     He 
was  gentle,  genial  and  unselfish.     He  made  hosts  of 
friends  and  kept  them.      He  had  a  keen  interest  in 
public    affairs    and   the    city   of   Boston   honored   his 


ELLIS    MENDELL 


GRADUATES  157 


memory  by  calling  one  of  her  schools  by  his  name. 
He  lived  a  life  of  unassuming  goodness.  It  would 
be  a  blessing  to  any  community  to  have  such  a  man 
in  it.  Yet  his  life  was  not  a  passive  one,  nor  was  his 
work  easy.  But  he  had  strength  and  courage.  He 
never  complained  or  made  excuses.  He  was  always 
brave  and  cheerful.  Difficulty  challenged  him  to  do 
his  best  and  he  met  the  challenge  with  a  stout  heart  and 
a  willing  mind.  If  the  test  of  a  man's  life  is  found 
in  the  impression  which  he  made  upon  others  Mendell 
succeeded  where  many  fail,  for  the  testimony  is  unvary- 
ing as  to  his  high  excellence  and  mortal  and  spiritual 
worth. 

S.  C.  Bushnell. 


Charles  William  Minor 

Lawyer 

Residence — Stamford,  Conn. 

Business  address — 104  West  Forty-second  Street,  New  York  City 

Born  August  6,  1851,  in  Stamford,  Conn.,  the  son  of  William  T. 
and  Mary  C.   (Leeds)   Minor. 

He  studied  at  Russell's  Military  School,  New  Haven,  Conn., 
from  1864  to  1867.  In  January,  1867,  he  went  to  Cuba  with 
his  father,  who  at  that  time  was  consul  general  at  Havana. 
While  there  he  had  a  serious  illness,  and  on  his  return  to  the 
United  States  in  April,  was  sent  to  Europe  to  regain  his  health. 
He  studied  at  Munich,  Bavaria,  under  a  private  tutor,  and  also 
attended  lectures  at  the  University,  until  the  summer  of  1869, 
when  he  returned  home.  During  the  winter  of  1869-70  he 
finished  his  preparation  for  Yale  under  the  instruction  of  Dennis 
Beach,  Jr.,  Yale  '69. 

He  was  married  June  17,  1884,  to  Miss  Hattie  F.  deCamp 
(died    July    5,    1900,    in    Bad    Nauheim,    Germany),    daughter    of 


158 


BIOGRAPHIES 


CHARLES    WILLIAM    MINOR 


John  H.  deCamp  of  New  York  City  (died  June  24,  1869). 
Three  children  were  born  to  them: 

William  Thomas,  Yale  Law  School  '05,  born  in  New  York  City, 
May  16,  1885. 

Charles  Perrot,  born  in  Tarrytown,  N.  Y.,  June  29,   1889. 

Norman  Standish,  born  in  Tarrytown,  N.  Y.,  November  2,  1892. 

On  April  7,  1904-,  Minor  was  married  to  Miss  Lottie  E.  Sprague, 
daughter  of  Cornelius  J.  Sprague  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  (died 
March   1,   1868). 

Minor  writes: 

"After  graduation  passed  the  summer  in  Europe. 
Entered  Columbia  College  Law  School  in  September 
of  that  year  and  in  May,  1876,  received  the  degree  of 
LL.B.  and  at  the  same  time  was  admitted  to  the  New 
York  Bar.  In  connection  with  the  law  school  studied 
in  the  office  of  Vanderpool,  Green  &  Cuming.  Since 
then  have  practiced  law  in  New  York  City. 


GRADUATES  159 


"In  November,  1882,  was  elected  from  Stamford  to 
the  Connecticut  House  of  Representatives  and  served 
on  the  judiciary  committee.  Have  been  a  director  of 
the  Stamford  National  Bank  since  1887. 

"From  1895  to  1900  spent  a  part  of  my  time  in 
Europe,  where  my  boys  were  studying,  and  during  the 
summers  of  those  years  traveled  with  my  family 
through  Germany  and  Switzerland,  where  I  met  a  large 
number  of  Yale  graduates;  this  meeting  of  friends 
and  renewing  of  friendships  made  at  'old  Yale'  was 
one  of  the  pleasantest  features  of  my  travels. 

"After  the  death  of  my  wife  in  July,  1900,  I  returned 
home  with  my  sons  and  have  since  then  spent  most  of 
my  time  in  Stamford  and  New  York.  I  am  a  member 
of  the  University  Club,  New  York  City;  Sons  of  the 
Revolution,  Stamford  Yacht  Club,  and  the  Suburban 
Club  of  Stamford." 

Edward  Parmelee  Morris 

Dunham    Professor   of   Latin,   Yale   University 

Residence — 58    Edgehill   Road,   New  Haven,   Conn. 

Business   address — Yale   University,   New   Haven,   Conn. 

Born  September  17,  1853,  in  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of 
Edward  D.  and  Frances  E.  Morris. 

He  prepared  at  the  Woodward  High  School,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

He  was  married  January  2,  1879,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  to  Miss 
Charlotte  Webster  Humphrey,  daughter  of  Reverend  Z.  M.  Hum- 
phrey, D.D.,  a  professor  in  Lane  Seminary,  Cincinnati.  They 
have  had  four  children: 

Frances  Humphrey,  Bryn  Mawr  '02,  born  in  Springfield,  Mo., 
September  26,  1880,  now  Mrs.  John  Bruce  Orr  of  Sewickley,  Pa. 

Edward,  born  in  Jena,  Germany,  May  19,  1885,  died  in 
Williamstown,  Mass.,  September   18,   1885. 


160 


BIOGRAPHIES 


EDWARD    PARMELEE    MORRIS 


Margaret,  Bryn  Mawr  '08,  born  in  Williamstown,  Mass., 
December    10,    1886. 

Humphrey,  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  June  28,   1897. 

Morris  writes: 

"The  two  years  immediately  after  graduation  I 
spent  in  Cincinnati,  where  my  father  lived,  teaching 
in  small  schools  and  doing  some  not  very  intelligent 
studying.  In  1876  I  went  to  Purdue  University, 
Lafayette,  Ind.,  as  instructor  in  Latin,  and  in  1877  to 
Lake  Forest  University  as  professor  of  mathematics 
and  Latin.  After  two  years  there,  during  which  I  was 
pretty  constantly  quarreling  with  the  president,  my 
resignation  was  called  for,  and  I  remember  that  I 
thought  this  a  rather  serious  blow  to  my  professional 
prospects.  But  it  was  a  piece  of  great  good  fortune. 
I  went  at  once  (1879)  to  Drury  College,  Springfield, 


GRADUATES  161 


Mo.,  and  spent  five  years  there,  in  many  ways  the  most 
valuable  years  of  my  life.  It  was  there  that  I  learned 
something  about  bearing  responsibilities,  and  I  was, 
during  all  this  time,  studying  pretty  hard.  While  I 
was  in  Springfield  I  made,  with  hesitation,  my  first 
attempts  at  scholarly  publication.  In  1884  I  was 
elected  to  a  professorship  of  Latin  at  Williams,  with 
a  year's  leave  of  absence  for  study  in  Germany.  The 
first  semester  I  spent  at  Leipzig,  and  the  second  at 
Jena,  where  I  went  for  work  in  Plautus  with  Goetz. 

"After  six  very  pleasant  years  at  Williams  I  was 
called  to  Yale  in  1891,  and  here  I  expect  to  spend 
the  rest  of  my  working  life.  I  am  a  member  of 
several  organizations,  but  none  of  them  of  a  public 
character  except  the  ordinary  philological  societies. 
Williams  gave  me  the  degree  of  L.H.D.  in  1904,  and 
Harvard  the  degree  of  Litt.D.  in  1909,  at  the  inaugu- 
ration of  President  Lowell. 

"My  favorite  recreation  is  sailing;  in  fact  it  is  almost 
my  only  out-of-door  amusement,  and  I  am  still  so  much 
interested  in  it  that  I  am  almost  ashamed  of  my 
absorption  in  it. 

"I  see  something  of  the  New  Haven  men,  espe- 
cially Farnam,  and  my  friendship  with  Dimock  has 
been  a  source  of  pride  and  pleasure  to  me.  It  is  one 
of  the  advantages  of  the  quiet  life  of  a  teacher  that 
it  offers  many  opportunities  for  intimate  friendships, 
and  the  happiness  of  my  life — which  has  been  great — 
has  come  first  from  friendships  and  second  from 
professional  work." 

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Malum   as    an   interjection.      Am.   Jrl.   of  Philology,    1882;     The 


162  BIOGRAPHIES 

study  of  Latin.  Boston,  D.  C.  Heath,  1885;  The  pseudolus  of 
Plautus.  Boston,  Allyn  and  Bacon,  1890;  The  sentence-question 
in  Plautus  and  Terence.  (Three  articles)  Am.  Jrl.  of  Philology, 
1890-1891;  The  subjunctive  in  independent  sentences  in  Plautus 
and  Terence.  (Three  articles)  Am.  Jrl.  of  Philology,  1897;  The 
Captivi  and  Trinummus  of  Plautus.  Boston,  Ginn  &  Co.,  1898; 
On  principles  and  methods  in  Latin  syntax.  Yale  Bicentennial 
Ser.,  Scribner's,  1901;  (With  Professor  Hanns  Oertel  of  Yale.) 
An  examination  of  the  theories  regarding  the  nature  and  origin 
of  Indo-European  inflection.  Harvard  Studies,  XVI,  1905; 
Horace:  the  satires.  N.  Y.,  American  Book  Co.,  1909;  An 
interpretation  of  Catullus  VIII.  Trans.  Conn.  Acad.,  Leipzig 
vol.,  1909;  Horace:  the  epistles.  N.  Y.,  American  Book  Co., 
1911;     (With    Professor    Morgan   of    Harvard.)      Edited   a    series 

of  Latin  text-books,  published 
by    the    American    Book    Co. ; 
Various  reviews,  chiefly  in  the 
Am.   Jrl.   of  Philology. 
J" 


^Gilbert   Gates   Moseley 

Died   1908 

Born  November  28,  1853, 
in  Hartford,  Conn.,  the  son  of 
David  Bingham  and  Mary 
(Webster)   Moseley. 

He  prepared  for  college  at 
the  Hartford  (Conn.)  Public 
High  School. 

He  was  unmarried. 


GILBERT    GATES    MOSELEY 


After  graduation  Moseley  traveled  abroad,  and  was 
for  many  years  associated  with  his  father  and  brother 
on  the  Religious  Herald  in  Hartford. 


GRADUATES 


163 


GEORGE    EDMUND    MUNROE 


He  was  for  seventeen  years  an  invalid,  and  died  of 
B right's  disease  in  Middletown,  Conn.,  February  14, 
1908,  in  his  fifty-fifth  year. 


George  Edmund  Munroe 

Physician 
Residence — 126   Madison   Avenue,   New   York   City 

Born  December  9,  1851,  on  board  the  ship  Mandarin  on  the 
Indian  Ocean,  the  son  of  George  D.  and  Pauline  (Washburn) 
Munroe. 

He  prepared  at  the  Edwards  Place  School,  Stockbridge,  Mass. 

He  was  married  February  3,  1881,  in  Burlington,  N.  J.,  to 
Miss  Jessie  Reynolds,  of  Burlington,  N.  J.,  daughter  of  John 
Reynolds.     They  have   had  one   child: 

Marjorie,   born   in   New   York,   September   21,    1891. 


164 


BIOGRAPHIES 


After  leaving  college  Munroe  entered  the  College 
of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  New  York  City,  and 
received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  that  institution  in 
March,  1877.  The  same  month  he  accepted  an  appoint- 
ment on  the  staff  of  Bellevue  Hospital.  After  com- 
pleting his  service  there,  he  served  for  two  years  on 
the  staff  of  the  Woman's  Hospital  and  then  opened  an 
office  in  New  York  City  for  general  practice  in  which 
he  has  been  eminently  successful. 

In  a  recent  letter  he  says:  "I  am  sorry  that  nothing 
of  any  interest,  to  any  but  myself,  nothing  dramatic, 
nothing  epoch-making,  has  occurred  in  my  life.     *  *  * 

I  am  still  engaged  in  prac- 
ticing general  medicine 
with,  I  hope,  a  respect- 
able reputation  and  fair 
success,  and  that  is  all." 
He  is  a  member  of  the 
Yale,  University,  and  the 
Century  clubs,  of  New 
York  City,  and  spends 
his  summers  in  East 
Hampton,  L.  I. 


Alexander  Brown  Nevin 

Born    October    3,    1851,    in 

Pittsburgh,    Pa.,    the    son    of 

Theodore    Hagh    and    Hannah 

Irwin  Nevin. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass. 

He  was  married  October   14,  1875,  to  Miss  Sophronia  E.  Har- 

baugh  of  Sewickley,  Pa.     They  had  two  children: 


ALEXANDER    BROWN    NEVIN 


GRADUATES  165 


William  Harbaugh,  M.E.  Cornell  '00,  Class  Boy,  born  July 
12,   1876. 

Hannah  Irwin,  St.  Margaret's  School  '99,  born  September  17, 
1879. 

After  graduation  Nevin  became  connected  with  the 
First  National  Bank  of  Allegheny,  where  he  remained 
until  June,  1875,  when  he  accepted  a  position  with  the 
firm  of  T.  H.  Nevin  &  Company,  white  lead  manu- 
facturers, of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.  He  later  became  assist- 
ant teller  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Allegheny. 
Many  years  ago  Nevin  unaccountably  disappeared  and 
has  not  been  heard  of  since. 


*Francis  Howard  Olmsted 

Died  1886 

Born  April  14,  1853,  in  Chicago,  111.,  the  son  of  Lucius  Duncan 
and  Jessie  (Sherman)  Olmsted,  and  grandson  of  Professor  Denison 
Olmsted,   Yale    1813. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hartford  (Conn.)  Public  High 
School. 

He  was  married  October  13,  1882,  to  Miss  Gertrude  Meredith 
Holley,  daughter  of  Alexander  Lyman  Holley,  the  distinguished 
engineer,  and  Mary  Slade  Holley,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  They  had 
three  children: 

Alexander  Holley,  Yale  '04,  born  November  7,  1883. 

Jessie  Sherman,  born  December  28,   1884. 

Francis   Howard,  born   January   12,    1886. 

Olmsted  went  abroad  after  graduation  and  traveled 
during  the  summer  of  1874,  in  company  with  Horace 
Chittenden,  Arthur  Dodge,  and  Will  Kelly,  settling 
down  to  work  in  the  autumn  at  Berlin,  where  he 
studied  German  and  attended  lectures.  In  the  spring 
of  1875  he  went  to  Heidelberg,  and  was  matriculated 


166 


BIOGRAPHIES 


at  the  University,  where  he  spent  the  summer  semester. 
In  August  he  traveled  through  Switzerland,  and  in 
October  went  to  Munich  and  spent  the  winter  studying 

Roman  law.  In  1876  he 
traveled  in  North  Italy 
and  the  Riviera  and  in 
Spain,  intending  to  re- 
turn to  Germany  for  fur- 
ther study;  but  in  June 
of  that  year  he  was  taken 
very  ill  at  Avignon  and 
was  moved  to  Geneva, 
where  his  family  was 
staying.  The  illness  re- 
sulted in  a  permanent 
lameness.  Later  he  went 
to  Rome,  returning  to 
Switzerland  in  the 
spring  of  1877,  and  in 
May  he  returned  to 
America. 
He  attended  lectures  at  the  Columbia  Law  School, 
and  subsequently  entered  the  law  office  of  Barlow  & 
Olney  in  New  York,  of  which  he  became  managing 
clerk.  In  the  spring  of  1881  he  revisited  Europe, 
where  his  mother  and  sisters  had  remained,  at  Vevey, 
Switzerland,  and  went  abroad  again  in  December  of 
the  same  year. 

Immediately  after  his  marriage  he  started  with  his 
wife  for  Australia,  where  he  went  as  agent  of  the 
Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company  on  a  mission  to  the 
Australian  Government  concerning  the  mail  service 
of  the  company.     So  far  from  restoring  his  health, 


FRANCIS    HOWARD    OLMSTED 


GRADUATES  167 


which  was  seriously  affected,  the  climate  of  Australia 
had  the  contrary  effect,  and  on  his  return  to  America 
he  went  in  January,  1884,  to  Colorado.  After  visiting 
health  resorts,  he  settled  in  Denver,  entering  the  law 
office  of  Hon.  Edward  Wolcott.  The  condition  of  his 
health  soon  drove  him  from  the  law  to  a  life  out  of 
doors,  and  in  the  spring  of  1885  he  settled  on  a  ranch 
near  Denver,  which  he  selected  with  such  good  judg- 
ment and  improved  with  such  skill  that  its  value 
increased  rapidly. 

His  disease  had,  however,  progressed  too  far  to  be 
checked  by  this  wholesome  life,  and  in  its  later  stages 
was  aggravated  by  close  and  characteristically  deter- 
mined application  to  business,  and  he  died  March  26, 
1886,  in  Denver,  Colo.,  in  his  thirty-third  year. 

William  Parkin 

Lawyer  and  Clerk  of  the  United  States  Circuit  Court  of  Appeals 

Residence — 49  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City 
Business  address — Room  135,  Post  Office  Building,  New  York  City 

Born  September  3,  1854,  in  New  London,  Conn.,  the  son  of 
William  Winthrop  and  Frances  Moore   Parkin. 

He  prepared  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H.,  and  entered 
the  Class  at  the  beginning  of  Sophomore  year. 

He  is  unmarried. 

Parkin  writes: 

"My  permanent  residence  has  always  been  as  above 
given,  though  for  two  years,  November,  1880,  to  May, 
1882,  I  lived  on  Staten  Island,  and  from  then  until 
November,  1885,  had  rooms  in  New  York  City,  my 
family  living  in  the  country.  I  practiced  law  with 
John  B.  Whiting,  '74,  from  1878  to  1884,  the  firm 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


being  at  first  Whiting  &  Parkin,  then  Gibson,  Whiting 
&  Parkin.  In  1884  I  became  connected  as  clerk  with 
the  firm  of  MacFarland,  Reynolds  &  Harrison,  and 
remained  with  the  head  of  that  firm,  W.  W.  MacFar- 
land, through  various  business  changes  until  1890,  when 
the  firm  became  MacFarland  &  Parkin.  This  lasted 
until  1897,  when  I  was  appointed  to  my  present  place. 

"My  clubs  are  the  University,  Century,  and  Yale. 
I  have  taken  an  occasional  trip  to  Europe.  I  play  golf 
a  little  and  this  may  be  called  my  favorite  recreation. 

"The  classmates  I  see  most  frequently  are  George 
Munroe,  Henry  James,  Alfred  Thacher,  Pearce 
Barnes,  and  E.  D.  Robbins,  and  until  his  death  I  fre- 
quently saw  H.  B.  B.  Stapler.  My  life  has  been 
uneventful  and  as  it  has  no  history  should  be  called 
a  happy  one." 


WILLIAM    PARKIN 


GRADUATES 


169 


*Franklin  Wells  Patten 

Died  1890 

Born  May  8,  1855,  in  Stafford,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Robbins  and 
Louise  A.  Patten. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  Wesleyan  Academy,  Wilbraham, 
Mass.  In  the  fall  of  1870  he 
entered  Wesleyan  University, 
Middletown,  Conn.,  where  he 
remained  six  weeks,  when  he 
became  a  member  of  Yale  '74. 

He  was  unmarried. 

After  graduation  Pat- 
ten went  into  business  at 
New  Haven,  afterward 
studying  law  at  the  Yale 
Law  School,  from  which 
he  received  the  degree  of 
LL.B.  in  June,  1876. 
He  practiced  law  in 
Philadelphia  until  Octo- 
ber, 1882.  The  following 
six  years,  on  account  of 
poor  health,  he  was  out 
of  business.  In  1888  he 
went  to  New  York  and 
the  Greenwich  Insurance 
pneumonia,  in  New  York  City,  January  6,  1890,  in  his 
thirty-fifth  year. 


FRANKLIN    WELLS    PATTEN 

became    connected    with 
Company.      He    died    of 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


John  Wesley  Peck 

Superintendent   of   Schools,   Derby,   Conn. 
Address — 23   Elizabeth  Street,  Derby,  Conn. 

Born  February  10,   1852,  in  Trumbull,  Conn.,  the  son  of  John 
Levi  and  Eliza   Nichols   Peck. 
He  prepared  at  Stratford,   Conn. 
He  is  unmarried. 

Peck  writes: 

"After  graduation  I  taught  for  two  years  in  the 
Easton  (Conn.)  Academy.  Then  I  returned  (1876) 
to  Yale,  where  I  spent  two  years  in  the  graduate 
department  studying  French,  Greek,  and  Latin.  In 
1878  I  received  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  In  1879  I 
became  principal  of  one  of  the  public  schools  of  Derby 


JOHN    WESLEY    PECK 


GRADUATES 


171 


RUTHERFORD    HAYES    PLATT 


(then  Birmingham),  Conn.  This  position  I  held  until 
1893,  when  I  was  chosen  superintendent  of  all  the 
public  schools  in  the  same  place,  and  still  hold  that 
position." 


Rutherford  Hayes  Piatt 

Lawyer 

Residence — 414    East    Broad    Street,    Columbus,   Ohio 

Business  address — 13%  East  State  Street,  Columbus,  Ohio 

Born  September  6,  1853,  in  Columbus,  Ohio,  the  son  of  William 
A.   and  Fanny    (Hayes)    Piatt. 

He  prepared  at   Phillips   Academy,  Andover,   Mass. 

He  was  married  January  5,  1887,  in  Columbus,  Ohio,  to  Miss 
Maryette     Andrews     Smith,     daughter     of     Robert    S.     Smith,     a 


172  BIOGRAPHIES 

lawyer  (retired)  of  Columbus,  Ohio.     They  have  had  six  children, 
all  born  in  Columbus,  Ohio: 

William  Andrews,  born  December  24,  1887,  died  May  1,  1892. 

Anne    Swan,   born    September    5,    1889,    died   January,    1890. 

Robert  Swanton,  born  December   4,   1891. 

Rutherford  Hayes,  Jr.,  born  August  8,   1894. 

Joseph  Swan,  born  January   8,   1902. 

Emily,  born  February  16,  1906. 

Directly  after  graduation  Piatt  went  abroad  and 
remained  in  Europe  until  the  autumn  of  1876,  studying 
languages,  and  traveling.  Upon  his  return  he  entered 
the  Columbia  College  Law  School  in  New  York  City, 
receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1879,  and  since  that 
time  has  practiced  law  in  Columbus. 


Peter  Augustus  Porter 

Address — Niagara    Falls,    N.    Y. 

Born  October  10,  1853,  in  Niagara  Falls,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of 
Peter  Augustus  and  Mary  Cabell  Porter. 

He  prepared  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H.,  and  joined 
the  Class  of  '74  at  the  beginning  of  Sophomore  year. 

He  was  married  February  13,  1877,  in  Niagara  Falls,  N.  Y., 
to  Miss  Alice  Adele  Taylor,  daughter  of  Virgil  C.  Taylor,  of 
Barkhamsted,  Conn.     They  have  three  children: 

Peter  Augustus,  Jr.,  born  November  16,  1877. 

Cabell  Breckenridge,  born  April   8,    1881. 

Preston  Buell,  born  March   13,   1891. 

After  graduation  Porter  went  abroad  for  one  year 
and  since  that  time  has  lived  for  the  most  part  in 
Niagara  Falls,  N.  Y.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Assembly  of  the  State  of  New  York  in  1886  and  1887, 
second  Niagara  County  district,  and  introduced  the  bill 


GRADUATES 


173 


PETER    AUGUSTUS    PORTER 


under  which  the  Niagara  electrical  power  has  been 
developed.  He  was  a  member  of  Congress  from  the 
thirty-fourth  New  York  district  from  1907  to  1909. 


*Henry  Harger  Ragan 

Died  1895 

Born  August  4,  1850,  in  Turin,  Jefferson  County,  N.  Y.,  the 
son  of  Henry  and  Mary  Ragan. 

He  prepared  at  Cazenovia,  N.  Y.,  and  in  college  was  Class 
orator  and  won  many  prizes  in  composition  and  speaking. 

He  was  unmarried. 


After  graduation  Ragan  studied  for  one  year  in  the 
Columbia  Law  School  and  then  entered  an  office  in 


174 


BIOGRAPHIES 


Dubuque,  Iowa,  where  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
April,  1876.  He  practiced  his  profession  in  that  city 
until  January,  1881,  when  he  entered  the  lecture  field, 

for  which  he  had  already 
shown  a  marked  aptitude 
and  in  which  he  achieved 
signal  success.  He  lec- 
tured extensively  for  the 
rest  of  his  life  throughout 
this  country  and  also  in 
England.  His  home  in 
later  years  was  in  Syra- 
cuse, ]\T.  Y.,  and  he  left 
that  city  on  September 
24,  1895,  for  a  long  tour 
through  the  Southern 
States.  He  arrived  in 
Atlanta,  Ga.,  about  a 
fortnight  later  and  died 
there  of  pneumonia  on 
October  11,  in  his  forty- 
sixth  year. 


HENRY    HARGER    RAGAN 


Edgar  Mead  Reading 

Physician 

Professor,  Bennett  Medical   College 

Address — 6416  Monroe  Avenue,  Chicago,  111. 

Born  August  18,  1852,  in  Edwardsburgh,  Mich.,  the  son  of 
Edgar  and  Amelia  Mead  Reading. 

He  prepared  at  Milwaukee  Academy,  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  and 
entered  the  Class  of  '74  at  the  beginning  of  Sophomore  year. 


GRADUATES 


175 


EDGAR    MEAD    READING 

He  was  married  June  11,  1879,  to  Miss  Demia  E.  Myers  of 
Chicago,  111.,  who  died  February  6,  1897.  He  was  married  June 
15,  1898,  in  Niles,  Mich.,  to  Miss  Clara  J.  Burke,  Niles  High 
School  '86,  daughter  of  John  Burke,  a  farmer  of  Niles,  Mich. 
They  have  one  child,  Edgar  Burke  Reading. 


In  September,  1874,  Reading  entered  the  State 
Street  Savings  Bank  of  Chicago,  111.,  where  he 
remained  until  the  latter  part  of  September,  1875.  He 
then  commenced  the  winter  course  of  lectures  at  Rush 
Medical  College,  Chicago.  In  the  fall  of  1876  he 
entered  the  Bennett  Medical  College  of  Chicago,  where 
he  was  graduated  in  February,  1877,  with  the  degree 
of  M.D.  In  1878  he  was  elected  professor  of  physiol- 
ogy in  the  same  college.  In  1883  he  accepted  the 
chair  of  physiology  and  histology  in  Chicago  Veteri- 


176  BIOGRAPHIES 

nary  College  and  in  1886  was  elected  to  the  chair  of 
diseases  of  the  nervous  system,  and  of  the  heart,  throat 
and  lungs,  in  Bennett  Medical  College.  In  1889  he 
was  appointed  member  of  the  medical  staff  of  Cook 
County  Hospital,  and  in  1890  received  the  degree  of 
M.A.  from  Northwestern  University,  Evanston,  111. 

Reading  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  deacons  of 
the  Sixth  Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago  until  1902, 
and  in  1910  was  elected  an  elder  in  the  Woodlawn 
Park  Presbyterian  Church.  He  says  that  he  is  in 
closer  touch  with  Harrison  and  Leighton  than  with  any 
other  members  of  the  Class  as  they  both  live  in  Chicago. 


George  Darius  Reid 

Pastor  First  Baptist  Church,  Shelton,  Conn. 
Address — 510  Howe  Avenue,  Shelton,   Conn. 

Born  July  11,  1849,  in  Suffield,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Samuel 
Newel  and  Louisa  Maria  Reid. 

He   prepared   at   Edwards    Place   School,   Stockbridge,    Mass. 

He  was  married  February  16,  1876,  in  Suffield,  Conn.,  to  Miss 
Phebe  Margaret  Sykes,  Abbott  Female  Seminary  (Andover,  Mass.) 
'74,  daughter  of  Henry  A.  Sykes,  M.A.,  an  architect,  of  Suffield, 
Conn.,  and  Julia  A.   Sykes.     They  have  six  children: 

Helen  Margaret,  born  in  Newton  Centre,  Mass.,  January  9, 
1877. 

George  Harold,  Yale  '01  S.,  born  in  Edgartown,  Mass., 
September   8,   1878. 

Julia   Fowler,  born  in  Edgartown,   Mass.,   March   2,   1881. 

Mildred  Ruth,  born  in  Orange,  Mass.,  July  29,   1884. 

Thomas  Pattison,  Yale  '11,  born  in  Orange,  Mass.,  June  13, 
1888. 

Dorothy,  born  in  Deep   River,  Conn.,   February   18,    1892. 


GRADUATES 


177 


GEORGE    DARIUS    REID 


Reid  writes: 

"After  graduation  I  took  one  year  at  the  Yale 
Theological  Seminary;  then  went  to  the  Newton 
Theological  Seminary  for  two  years.  In  December, 
1877,  I  took  a  church  at  Edgartown,  Mass.,  where  I 
remained  three  years,  becoming  interested  in  conchol- 
ogy  and  microscopy,  which  interest  I  have  retained. 
From  Edgartown  I  went  to  Orange,  Mass.,  in  January, 
1881,  remaining  there  nine  years,  serving  on  the  school 
board  for  four  years  as  I  had  two  years  previously 
at  Edgartown.  In  January,  1890,  I  went  to  Deep 
River,  Conn.,  where  I  was  pastor  for  five  years.  Dur- 
ing that  time  I  became  a  member  of  the  American 
Conchological  Association  and  continued  my  interest 
in    conchology,    making    a    specialty    of    Connecticut 


178  BIOGRAPHIES 

forms.  I  resigned  at  Deep  River  in  1895  and  in 
March,  1896,  accepted  the  pastorate  of  the  East 
Washington  Avenue  Church  (now  the  Second  Church), 
Bridgeport,  Conn.  I  held  this  position  for  five  years, 
then  entered  the  employ  of  the  Mutual  Life  Insur- 
ance Company  of  New  York,  continuing  in  this 
business  until  taking  the  pastorate  at  Shelton,  Conn., 
in  1904. 

"One  son  graduated  at  Sheff  in  1901  and  has  since 
been  with  the  General  Electric  Company  of  Schenec- 
tady, N.  Y.,  and  is  now  assistant  manager  of  the 
power  and  mining  department.  The  other  son  was 
graduated  in  the  Academic  department  at  Yale  in 
1911  and  contemplates  entering  the  Forestry  School. 

"My  favorite  recreations  are  conchology,  tramping 
and  camping." 


Edward  Denmore  Robbins 

Lawyer 
General   Counsel,   New   York,   New   Haven   &   Hartford   Railroad 

Company 

Residence — 408   St.   Ronan  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Business    address — Care    New    York,    New    Haven    &    Hartford 

Railroad   Company,   New   Haven,   Conn. 

Born  October  20,  1853,  in  Wethersfield,  Conn.,  the  son  of 
Richard  Austin  and  Harriet  Welles  Robbins. 

He  prepared  at  the  Hartford   (Conn.)   High  School. 

He  was  married  February  12,  1908,  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  to  Miss 
Charlotte  E.  Swan,  daughter  of  Egbert  Phelps  Swan  (deceased), 
of  Hartford.     They  have  two  children: 

Harriet  Welles,  born  in   Rockport,   Mass.,   September    1,    1909. 

Edward  Denmore,  Jr.,  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  November 
30,   1910. 


GRADUATES 


179 


EDWARD    DENMORE    ROBBINS 


Robbins  writes: 

"After  studying  abroad  for  a  year  and  under  a 
fellowship  at  Yale  for  two  years,  I  became  a  tutor  in 
the  Academic  department  at  Yale  in  the  fall  of  1877, 
and  continued  in  that  position  until  1882.  I  was 
afterwards  lecturer  on  jurisprudence  and  subsequently 
professor  of  jurisprudence  in  the  Yale  Law  School, 
but  was  compelled  by  stress  of  other  work  to  resign 
the  position  in  1903. 

"In  the  summer  of  1882  I  was  graduated  from  the 
Yale  Law  School  and  after  fifteen  months  spent  in 
traveling,  which  included  a  winter  in  a  dahabeah  on  the 
Nile  up  to  the  second  cataract,  I  began  the  practice  of 
law  in  Hartford,  Conn.  The  most  of  my  time  is  now 
occupied  by  my  duties  as  general  counsel  for  the  New 


180  BIOGRAPHIES 

York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad  Company, 
with  offices  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  New  York  City. 

"I  have  lived  in  Wethersfield,  Conn.,  until  recently. 
During  the  year  1910  I  bought  a  house  in  New  Haven. 
I  was  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives in  the  years  1882  and  1883,  and  have  been 
a  member  of  the  Connecticut  State  Board  of  Education 
since  1884.  I  have  just  been  reappointed  for  a  term 
expiring  in  1913. 

"After  an  attack  of  pneumonia  in  1901  I  spent  the 
following  winter  in  India.  I  had  earlier  spent  a 
summer  in  Japan  and  China.  I  have  been  in  every 
country  in  Europe  except  Russia  and  Portugal,  and  I 
also  spent  a  summer  in  Mexico.  I  have  been  in  every 
state  and  territory  of  the  United  States  with  the 
exception  of  Alaska,  Idaho,  and  Louisiana.  I  am  a 
member  of  the  University,  Century,  and  Yale  clubs  of 
New  York;  the  Hartford  and  Country  clubs  of  Hart- 
ford, and  the  Graduates,  Union  League,  and  Country 
clubs  of  New  Haven." 

His  principal  writings  have  been  law  briefs.  He 
wrote  a  little  book  on  phonetics,  published  by  Benjamin 
H.  Sanborn  &  Company,  Boston,  Mass.  It  has  been 
used  to  some  extent  in  primary  schools. 


Henry  Spencer  Bobbins 

Lawyer 

Residence — (summer)  Lake  Forest,  111. 

Business  address — Home  Insurance  Building,  Chicago,  111. 

Born  February   5,   1853,  in  East  Stoughton,  Mass.,  the  son  of 
John  V.  and  Anastatia  (Ford)   Robbins. 


GRADUATES 


181 


HENRY    SPENCER    ROBBINS 


He  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Haven, 
Conn.  He  left  the  Class  at  the  end  of  the  first  term  of  Junior 
year,  but  was  in  1894  given  his  degree  at  the  request  of  his 
classmates. 

He  was  married  December  12,  1883,  in  Chicago,  111.,  to  Miss 
Frances  Fuller  Johnston,  daughter  of  H.  Morris  Johnston,  of 
Chicago,  formerly  a  resident  of  Cincinnati.  They  have  four 
children,  all  born  in  Chicago,  111.: 

Marjorie  J.,  born   September  21,   1886. 

Dorothy   F.,   born   August    10,    1889. 

Isabelle  M.,  born  August  3,   1891. 

Frances   S.,  born  January   12,   1901. 


After  leaving  college  Robbins  went  west  and  studied 
law  in  the  office  of  Gregory  &  Pinney  in  Madison, 
Wis.,  for  a  period  of  about  eighteen  months,  attending 
at  the  same  time  the  Law  School  connected  with  the 


182  BIOGRAPHIES 

University  of  Wisconsin.  In  June,  1874,  he  was 
graduated  and  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  then  went  to 
New  York  City  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New 
York  State  in  the  summer  of  1875,  and  practiced  there 
until  the  summer  of  1876.     He  wrote  in  1910: 

"I  commenced  the  practice  of  law  in  Chicago  about 
September  1,  1876,  and  have  continued  in  it  ever  since. 
I  was  first  a  partner  of  Hempstead  Washburne,  after- 
wards mayor  of  Chicago,  and  a  son  of  the  ex-minister  to 
France,  Elihu  B.  Washburne.  I  afterwards  became, 
and  continued  for  a  number  of  years,  a  partner  of 
ex- Senator  Lyman  Trumbull.  Then  I  became  a 
partner  of  A.  W.  Green,  now  the  president  of  the 
National  Biscuit  Company,  and  since  January  1,  1898, 
I  have  practiced  alone.  Since  October,  1898,  I  have 
been  the  counsel  for  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade.  I 
am  now  special  assistant  to  the  United  States  Attorney- 
General  in  his  prosecutions  of  bucket-shops. 

"In  1896,  being  a  sound  money  Democrat,  I  was 
appointed  on  a  committee  of  five  to  bring  about  the 
Indianapolis  Convention  which  nominated  Palmer  and 
Buckner,  and  acted  as  one  of  the  sub-committee  of  two 
in  the  active  work  incident  thereto.  I  was  also  the 
active  chairman  of  the  Illinois  delegation  to  that 
convention. 

"I  am  a  member  of  the  Chicago,  University,  Iro- 
quois, and  Onwentsia  clubs  of  Chicago,  111.,  and  the 
University  Club  of  New  York  City." 


GRADUATES 


183 


Edwin  Forrest  Rouse 

Manufacturer  of  Heading 

Residence — 1222  Broadway,  Bay  City,  Mich. 

Business  address — Omer,  Mich. 

Born  June  17,  1852,  in  Clay  City,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  James  M. 
Rouse. 

He  prepared  at  the   Bay  City    (Mich.)    High  School. 

He  was  married  June  18, 
1879,  in  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  to 
Miss  Georgianna  Sadler, 
daughter  of  Ambrose  Sadler,  a 
retired  farmer  of  North  Syra- 
cuse, N.  Y.  They  have  two 
children : 

Dorothea,  born  in  Bay  City, 
Mich.,  February  6,  1881,  now 
Mrs.  Orrin  K.  Earl. 

Robert  Burton,  born  in  Bay 
City,  Mich.,  May  29,  1883. 

After  graduation  Rouse 
practiced  law  in  Bay 
City,  Mich.,  for  a  time, 
and  then  became  a  manu- 
facturer. 

EDWIN    FORREST    ROUSE 


Whipple  Owen  Sayles 

Lawyer 

Residence — East  Orange,  N.  J. 

Business  address — P.   O.   Box   1717,   and   27   William   Street, 

New  York  City 

Born  January  14,  1849,  in  Pascoag,  R.  I.,  the  son  of  Whipple 
and  Abigal    (Owen)    Sayles. 

He  prepared  at  Lapham  Institute,  North  Scituate,  R.  I. 


184 


BIOGRAPHIES 


He  was  married  October  5,  1878,  in  Bloomfield,  N.  J.,  to  Miss 
Emily  Sarah  Page,  daughter  of  Enoch  W.,  a  merchant  (deceased), 
and  Mellissa  L.  Page  (deceased),  of  Bloomfield,  N.  J.  They  have 
had  six   children. 

Mellissa   Ruth,  born  May  31,   1880. 

Whipple  Owen,  Jr.,  born  June  20,  1881,  died  October  12,  1882. 

Abigal  Edna,  born  July  16,   1883,  died  August  7,   1883. 

Ethel   Mary,   born   November   16,    1885. 

Osmond  Lyman,  born  August   15,   1890. 

Emily,   born   September    1,    1892. 

After  graduation  Sayles  entered  the  Columbia  Law 
School,  New  York  City,  receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B. 
from  that  institution  in  May,  1876.  Since  that  time 
he  has  practiced  law  in  New  York  City.  He  writes 
merely : 

"The  important  thing  is  that  I  am  still  at  work  (as 
I  view  it)." 


WHIPPLE    OWEN    SAYLES 


GRADUATES  185 


*Moses  Mcllvain  Sayre 

Died  1901 

Born  November  21,  1819,  in  Spring  Hills,  Champaign  County, 
Ohio,  the  son  of  Martin  and  Jane   Crocket   (Mcllvain)    Sayre. 

He  entered  Yale  and  '74  at  the  beginning  of  Senior  year  from 
Urbana,  after  spending  three 
years  at  Oberlin  College.  He 
afterward  received  the  degree 
of  B.A.  from  Oberlin  and  was 
enrolled  in  the  Class  of  '74 
there. 

He  was  married  February 
23,  1881,  to  Miss  Ella  Morris, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Maria 


(Kellar)  Morris,  of  Urbana. 
They  had  four  children: 

Helen  Gertrude,  born  De- 
cember 16,  1882. 

Agnes  Belle,  born  December 
18,   1884. 

Paul  Morris,  born  June  21, 
1887. 

Bessie,  born  June  21,  1887, 
died  July  28,   1887. 

MOSES    MC  ILVAIN    SAYRE 

For  about  three  years  after  graduation  Sayre  was 
engaged  in  teaching  and  studying  law.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  Ohio  bar  in  May,  1877,  and  from 
January,  1878,  practiced  his  profession  in  Urbana, 
Ohio.  In  October,  1881,  he  was  elected  State  Senator 
from  his  district,  and  served  two  years. 

He  died  of  typhoid  fever  in  Urbana,  Ohio,  September 
21,  1901,  in  his  fifty-second  year. 


186  BIOGRAPHIES 

John  Lewis  Scudder 

Clergyman 

Manager   of  the   People's    Palace,   Jersey   City,   N.   J. 

Address — 117  Bentley  Avenue,  Jersey  City,  N.  J. 

Born  December  5,  1853,  in  India,  the  son  of  Henry  Martyn 
and   Fanny    (Lewis)    Scudder. 

He  prepared  at  the  University  Mound  College,  San  Francisco, 
Calif.,  and  entered  the  Class  at  the  beginning  of  Sophomore  year. 

He  was  married  May  10,  1877,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  to  Miss 
Alice  May  Abbott,  daughter  of  Benjamin  F.  Abbott,  a  merchant 
of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  They  have  two  children,  both  born  in 
Shrewsbury,    Mass. : 

Adelaide,   born   March   24,    1878. 

Alice,  born  March  24,   1878. 

Scudder  wrote  in  1910: 

"In  the  autumn  of  1874  I  entered  the  Union  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  New  York  City,  and  there  I  wasted 
a  good  part  of  three  years  in  swallowing  but  never 
assimilating  a  mass  of  speculative  rubbish,  which  never 
has  been  of  much  service  to  me,  or  the  congregations 
I  have  served.  The  best  thing  I  did  during  this  barren 
period  was  to  'cut'  recitations  as  frequently  as  possible, 
and  take  long  walks  with  the  estimable  young  lady  who 
subsequently  became  my  wife  and  the  mother  of  the 
first  pair  of  twins  produced  by  the  Class  of  '74. 

"After  graduation  from  the  aforesaid  institution,  duly 
stuffed  with  a  multifarious  but  useless  mass  of  infor- 
mation, I  was  called  to  preach  in  the  Congregational 
Church  of  Shrewsbury,  Mass.,  a  suburb  of  the  city  of 
Worcester,  and  entered  upon  my  duties  in  December, 
1877.  Here  I  illuminated  the  district  for  four  years, 
exuded    'sweetness  and  light,'    and  endeavored  to  so 


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JOHN    LEWIS    SCUDDER 


live  as  to  reflect  credit  upon  dear  old  Yale.  They 
tolerated  me  for  the  space  of  four  years  and  upon  my 
departure  for  another  field  of  labor,  my  pet  deacon,  a 
very  orthodox  personage,  exclaimed,  'Scudder  is  a 
good  fellow,  but  he'll  never  learn  to  preach  the  gospel.' 
"In  April,  1882,  the  First  Congregational  Church 
of  Minneapolis  was  venturesome  enough  to  call  me; 
and  there  I  flourished  the  torch  of  true  and  undefiled 
religion  for  four  years.  Ex-Governor  Pillsbury  was 
a  shining  light  in  my  church.  We  both  took  a  deep 
interest  in  the  University  of  Minnesota,  which  was 
located  near  by,  and  when  he  consulted  me  with  refer- 
ence to  a  president  for  that  institution,  I  suggested  the 
name  of  Professor  Cyrus  Northrop  of  Yale,  whom  we 
duly  kidnapped  and  installed,  and  whose  beneficent 
influence  was  exerted  upon  the  Northwest  for  a  quarter 


188  BIOGRAPHIES 

of  a  century.  That  transplantation  was  one  of  the 
best  things  I  ever  did  in  my  life,  and  I  trust  the 
recording  angel  gave  me  a  good  mark  for  that 
distinguished  performance. 

"President  Northrop  attended  my  church,  and  natu- 
rally I  took  a  deep  interest  in  the  University.  He  was 
a  good  critic,  but  always  kind  and  helpful.  The  last 
time  I  preached  in  Minneapolis  he  came  up  into  the 
pulpit,  put  his  arm  around  me  and  said,  'John,  it  was 
what  you  said  that  brought  me  to  Minneapolis,  and  I 
wish  what  I  am  about  to  say  might  keep  you  here.'  But 
my  wife's  ill  health  made  it  necessary  for  me  to  come 
East,  and  in  May,  1886,  I  became  the  pastor  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  in  Jersey  City,  N.  J., 
where  I  ministered  for  nearly  twenty-five  years.  Here, 
in  the  thickly  settled  quarters  of  a  large  city  I  found 
myself  face  to  face  with  the  great  sociological  problems, 
which  are  engaging  the  attention  of  the  world,  and 
here  I  have  done  a  peculiar  work.  My  life  stands  for 
an  idea  which  is  embodied  in  a  magnificent  institution 
called  the  People's  Palace,  which  has  cost  over  a  quarter 
of  a  million  dollars,  and  was  erected  by  Mr.  Joseph 
Milbank,  whose  sons  Dunlevy,  '00,  and  Jeremiah,  '09, 
are  both  graduates  of  Yale  College.  The  underlying 
idea  of  this  institution  is  that  the  saloon  is  the  greatest 
evil  in  America,  and  must  be  fought  upon  its  own 
ground  and  by  its  own  methods.  My  doctrine  is  that 
as  young  people  are  principally  led  astray  through 
their  love  for  companionship  and  amusement,  it  is  the 
duty  of  the  church  to  diminish  their  temptations  and 
elevate  them  by  supplying  wholesome  recreation.  This, 
our  great  clubhouse,  which  has  no  superior  in  the 
United    States,    accomplishes    successfully.       It    is    a 


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palace  of  delight  for  all  who  wish  to  enter,  men  and 
women  alike.  Here  they  may  play  tenpins  or  billiards, 
dance,  enjoy  theatricals,  play  basket-ball,  box,  fence, 
wrestle,  and  so  forth.  In  this  institution,  dedicated  to 
humanity,  the  spirit  of  good  fellowship,  refinement 
and  brotherhood  prevails.  All  privileges  are  given  to 
men  for  the  sum  of  five  dollars  ($5.00)  a  year,  and 
to  women  for  three  dollars  ($3.00).  There  is  no 
initiation  fee,  and  the  institution  is  self-supporting.  It 
is  doing  a  big  business  in  the  line  of  health  and  happi- 
ness. It  has  been  successful  from  the  start,  and  is 
becoming  increasingly  popular.  It  diminishes  the 
patronage  of  the  saloons  by  supplying  the  amusements 
that  the  people  want.  It  'beats  the  devil'  so  to  speak. 
So  great  has  the  work  become  in  recent  years,  that  I 
resigned  my  pastorate  in  the  year  1910.  Now  another 
man  does  the  preaching  and  the  calling,  while  I  manage 
this  sociological  department.  To  this  work  I  shall 
devote  the  rest  of  my  life.  I  shall  enjoy  the  otium  cum 
dignitate  that  I  deserve,  and  move  around  this  institu- 
tion as  a  sort  of  guardian  angel.  I  am  now  fifty-seven 
years  of  age,  but  feel  like  a  boy  of  fifteen.  I  expect 
to  live  at  least  fifty  years  more,  and  be  the  last  member 
of  the  Class  of  '74  upon  this  earth." 


James  Cadwalader  Sellers 

Lawyer 

Residence — 14  West  Chestnut  Street,  West  Chester,  Pa. 

Business   address — 407   Franklin   Building,   Philadelphia,   Pa. 

Born  May  4,   1854,  in  South  Orange,  N.  J.,  the  son  of  James 
and  Emmeline  Bostwick   (Smith)   Sellers. 


190 


BIOGRAPHIES 


He  prepared  at  West  Chester  Academy,  West  Chester,  Pa., 
under  the  preceptorship  of  Professor  J.  Hunter  Worrall,  Yale  '56, 
Ph.D.   '62. 

He  was  married  April  25,  1878,  in  West  Chester,  Pa.,  to  Miss 
Elma  Anita  Townsend  (died  April  5,  1881),  daughter  of  Hon. 
Washington  Townsend,  of  West  Chester,  who  was  a  lawyer, 
banker  and  congressman.     They  had  one  child: 

James  Cadwalader,  Jr.,  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  August  26, 
1880.  He  is  a  mechanical  engineer,  a  graduate  cf  Lehigh 
University,  and  resides  in  Burnham,  Mifflin  County,  Pa.,  where 
he  has  a  position  with  the  Standard  Steel  Company,  of  that 
place.  He  is  married  and  has  two  children:  James  Townsend 
Sellers,  born  August  17,  1907,  and  Marjorie  Sellers,  born  March 
17,   1910. 

He  was  married  a  second  time  in  West  Chester,  Pa.,  June  18, 
1889,  to  Miss  Eleanor  Cresson  Barber,  daughter  of  the  late 
William  E.  Barber,  a  lawyer,  who  resided  in  West  Chester.  They 
have   had  two   children: 


JAMES    CADWALADER    SELLERS 


GRADUATES  191 


Marie,  Swarthmore  College  '10,  born  in  West  Chester,  June 
10,    1890,  now  teaching  at   Dayton,  Ohio. 

Elizabeth,  born  in  West  Chester,  August   14,   1896. 

Sellers  wrote  in  1910: 

"I  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Henry  Wharton,  Esq., 
of  the  Philadelphia  bar,  was  admitted  to  the  Phila- 
delphia bar  in  December,  1876,  and  have  continued  in 
the  practice  of  my  profession  since  that  date.  I  am 
also  a  member  of  the  bar  of  Chester  County,  Pa.,  my 
residence  having  been  for  many  years  in  that  county. 
Since  graduation  I  have  resided  continuously  either  in 
Philadelphia  or  at  West  Chester,  Pa.,  by  far  the 
greater  part  of  the  time  at  the  latter  place,  although 
my  business  location  has  always  been  in  Philadelphia. 
For  several  years  I  was  associate  editor  of  the  American 
Law  Register,  published  at  Philadelphia. 

"My  political  creed  has  always  been  that  of  the 
Republican  party  and  my  religious  connection  is  with 
the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  I  have  achieved 
neither  fame  nor  fortune." 

Thomas  Townsend  Sherman 

Lawyer 

Residence — Rye,  Westchester  County,   N.   Y. 

Ciiy  address— 126   East  Thirty-first  Street,   New   York  City 

Business  address — 60  Wall  Street,   New  York  City 

Born  July  28,  1853,  in  London,  England,  the  son  of  Edward 
Standish  and   Catharine  Augusta    (Townsend)    Sherman. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New 
Haven,  having  previously  attended  the  Fairfield  Academy  at 
Fairfield,  Conn.,  and  Benjamin  W.  Dwight's  school,  and  other 
schools   in  New  York  City. 


192  BIOGRAPHIES 

He  was  married  in  Rye,  N.  Y.,  October  19,  1887,  to  Miss 
Anne  Loder  Wiggin,  daughter  of  Augustus  Wiggin  of  Rye 
(deceased),  a  banker  and  merchant  in  New  York.  They  have 
one  child: 

Emily  Balch,  born  in  Rye,  N.  Y.,  March  3,   1891. 

Sherman  writes: 

"From  September,  1874,  to  February,  1875,  I  was 
a  teacher  in  Mr.  Frossard's  private  school  for  boys  at 
Irvington,  N.  Y.,  during  part  of  the  time  attending 
the  Columbia  Law  School.  On  February  11,  1875,  I 
entered  the  law  office  of  Evarts,  Southmayd  &  Choate 
in  New  York  City.  Studied  law  there  and  at  Columbia 
College  Law  School,  receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in 
1876,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  York  State 
on  December  13,  1876,  by  the  general  term  of  the 
supreme  court  of  the  second  department.  I  continued 
with  Evarts,  Southmayd  &  Choate  and  its  successor 
firm  of  Evarts,  Choate  &  Beaman  formed  in  1884, 
until  January  1,  1902,  when  I  became  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Evarts,  Tracy  &  Sherman,  composed  of 
J.  Evarts  Tracy,  Yale,  LL.D.  '57,  Allen  W.  Evarts, 
Yale  '69,  Thomas  T.  Sherman,  and  Herbert  J.  Bick- 
ford.  This  was  succeeded  January  1,  1908,  by  the 
present  firm  of  Evarts,  Choate  &  Sherman,  the  members 
of  which  are  Allen  W.  Evarts,  Thomas  T.  Sherman, 
Herbert  J.  Bickford  and  Joseph  H.  Choate,  Jr. 
The  Hon.  Joseph  H.  Choate,  Yale  Hon.  '01,  is 
associated  with  the  firm  as  counsel.  The  office  and 
business  to  which  the  present  firm  succeeded  have  been 
continuously  in  existence  for  more  than  seventy-five 
years. 

"I  have  always  since  September,  1874,  had  my 
domicile  and  legal  residence  in  Rye,  N.  Y.,  where  I  have 


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193 


THOMAS    TOWNSEND    SHERMAN 


also  actually  lived  in  summer,  but  usually  have  had  and 
occupied  in  winter,  an  apartment  or  a  house  in  Xew 
York  City.  I  have  held  no  political  or  governmental 
positions.  Have  been  a  member  of  the  vestry  of 
Christ's  Church  at  Rye,  X.  Y.,  continuously  since  1883, 
as  vestryman  from  1883  to  April  16,  1906,  and  as 
churchwarden  since  then,  serving  also  as  clerk  of  the 
vestry  since  1893.  On  February  28,  1895,  I  delivered 
an  historical  address  at  the  two  hundredth  anniversary 
of  the  founding  of  the  parish  of  Rye. 

"I  am  a  member  of  the  following:  Xew  York  His- 
torical Society ;  Xew  York  Genealogical  and  Biographi- 
cal Society;  the  Bar  Association  of  the  City  of  Xew 
York;  University,  Yale,  and  Down  Town  clubs  of 
Xew  York,  and  the  Apawamis  and  American  Yacht 
clubs  of  Rye,  Xew  York;   am  a  member  of  the  Board 


194  BIOGRAPHIES 

of  Governors  of  the  Apawamis  Club,  was  the  vice- 
president  from  1903  to  1905,  and  its  president  from 
1905  to  1907,  and  am  now  chairman  of  its  golf  com- 
mittee. No  military  record.  Have  not  traveled  as 
much  as  I  should  have  liked.  Have  been  to  Canada, 
all  the  New  England  and  the  Middle  States  and  some 
of  the  Southern  and  Western,  as  far  south  as  New 
Orleans  and  only  as  far  west  as  Cheyenne,  Wyoming. 
Went  to  Bermuda  in  1902,  to  Europe  in  1907,  1909, 
and  1910,  traveling  in  England,  Scotland,  Wales, 
France,  Holland  and  Belgium,  Germany,  Switzerland 
and  Italy.  My  favorite  recreations  are  golf  and 
genealogy.  I  have  seen  most  frequently  those  class- 
mates who  live  in  or  near  New  York  City  or  who  are 
there  often." 

Wayland  Spaulding 

Clergyman  and  Teacher 

Residence — Gerard    Apartments,    527    West    One    Hundred    and 

Twenty-first   Street,   New   York   City 

Born  September  26,  1850,  in  Townsend,  Mass.,  the  son  of 
Daniel  and  Lucy  Wyer   (Clement)   Spaulding. 

He  prepared  at  Lawrence  Academy,  Groton,  Mass.,  and 
Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass. 

He  was  married  December  31,  1874,  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
to  Miss  Mary  Mead  Peck,  daughter  of  Rev.  Whitman  Peck,  a 
clergyman   and  teacher.     They   have   one   child: 

Leila  Clement,  Vassar  '99,  Ph.D.  Columbia  '10,  born  in 
Morristown,  N.  J.,  August  28,  1878. 

Spaulding  writes: 

"After  graduation  I  took  charge  of  public  schools  in 
Rockville,  Conn.,  and  at  the  end  of  four  years  became 
principal  of  Morris  Academy,  Morristown,  N.  J.     In 


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195 


WAYLAND    SPAULDING 


holding  that  office  until  the  last  sickness  of  my  father, 
1881,  I  entered  Yale  Theological  Seminary,  and  at  the 
close  of  the  three  years  course  accepted  a  call  to  the 
Congregational  Church  in  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  where 
I  was  ordained  as  a  minister  and  installed  pastor,  May 
21,  1884.  Remained  there  over  eleven  years,  nearly 
two  hundred  and  fifty  uniting  with  the  church  during 
that  time.  In  1890  was  chosen  moderator  of  New 
York  State  Congregational  Association. 

"In  the  autumn  of  1895,  I  accepted  a  call  to  Bedford 
Park  Congregational  Church,  in  New  York  City.  The 
church  prospered  and  I  superintended  the  building  of 
a  handsome  manse.  Joined  the  Clerical  Union,  a 
club  meeting  weekly  for  essays  and  discussion,  and 
comprising  the  Congregational  Clergymen  of  New 
York  and  Vicinity.      Was  chosen  president  in  1901; 


196  BIOGRAPHIES 

late  that  year,  took  me  to  my  birthplace  in  Townsend, 
Mass. 

"During  the  two  years  required  to  settle  my  father's 
estate,  I  acted  as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church 
in  Ayer,  Mass.  In  this  interval  I  made  a  journey  of 
several  months  in  Europe  with  my  family.  Have  since 
been  a  member  of  the  Free  Lecture  Bureau  of  the  Xew 
York  Board  of  Education,  delivering  my  lecture  'How 
I  saw  Europe,  and  how  you  can,'  over  thirty  times  in 
various  centers.  Returning  to  New  York  City,  I  took 
charge  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  the  suburb, 
Xorth  Pelharn,  N.  Y.  My  residence,  however,  has 
been  on  Morningside  Heights,  in  the  city,  where  I  have 
had  all  the  work  I  could  do  as  a  private  instructor  to 
young  men  preparing  for  college.  I  traveled  through 
Europe  a  second  time  during  the  season  of  1910." 

On  November  22,  1907,  he  issued  through  the  trade 
a  pamphlet  entitled,    "When  Theodore  is  King." 

*Henry  Beidleman  Bascom  Stapler 

Died   1906 

Born  February  24,  1853,  in  Mobile,  Ala.,  the  son  of  James 
and   Maria    (Beidleman)    Stapler. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  Reynold's  Classical  Institute, 
Wilmington,  Del. 

He  was  married  November  10,  1880,  to  Miss  Helen  Louisa 
Gause,  daughter  of  John  Taylor  and  Martha  J.  Gause,  of 
Wilmington,   Del.     They  had   four   children: 

Martha  Gause,  born  May  30,   1882. 

John  Taylor  Gause,  a  lieutenant  in  the  Navy,  born  November 
22,   1883. 

Henry  [Beidleman]  Bascom,  Jr.,  Yale  '08,  born  October  16, 
1885. 

James  Beverly,  Christ  College,  Cambridge  '11,  born  April  16, 
1890. 


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197 


The  year  after  graduation  Stapler  was  classical 
instructor  in  the  Hartford  (Conn.)  Public  High 
School,  and  at  the  same  time  began  his  course  in  the 
Yale  Law  School,  which 
he  completed  in  1876. 
During  his  college  course 
he  won  several  prizes  in 
English  composition,  and 
at  the  end  of  the  second 
year  in  the  law  school  the 
Jewell  prize  for  the  high- 
est marks  in  examination. 
During  the  second  year 
of  his  law  course  he  was 
also  instructor  in  history 
in  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School. 

After  a  clerkship  with 
Fowler  &  Taylor  in  New 
York  City,  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  practice  in  May, 

1878,  and  the  following  September  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  his  classmate,  John  L.  Wood,  which  continued 
ten  years,  after  which  he  practiced  alone.  From  1891 
to  1893  he  was  assistant  district  attorney  of  the 
city  and  county  of  New  York,  and  was  then  with 
George  P.  Breckenridge,  in  the  law  firm  of  Stapler 
&  Breckenridge. 

He  died  of  pneumonia  at  his  home  in  Pelham  Manor, 
Westchester  County,  N.  Y.,  December  1,  1906,  in  his 
fifty-fourth  year. 


HENRY    B.    BASCOM    STAPLER 


198  BIOGRAPHIES 

In  Memoriam 

Stapler  was  dubbed  "the  General"  in  Freshman 
year,  when  he  managed  the  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon 
campaign  against  Delta  Kappa  in  June,  1871.  His 
zeal  and  earnestness  in  that  campaign  he  kept  up  all 
his  life,  in  fact  his  earnestness  often  extended  to  anxiety. 
He  was  always  struggling  to  push  his  way  on  to  the 
front.  Whatever  success  he  had  was  earned  by  toil  and 
sweat  of  brow. 

On  leaving  college  he  returned  home  to  Wilmington, 
then  studied  law  in  Baltimore,  then  came  in  1877  to 
New  York,  becoming  managing  clerk  for  Taylor  & 
Fowler  (Yale  '61  and  '63).  In  1878  he  formed  a 
partnership  with  me,  at  32  Nassau  Street.  How  well 
I  recall  that  little  office,  divided  by  a  board  partition, 
and  his  great  collision  case  of  the  "Grand  Republic" 
vs.  "Adelaide."  How  he  toiled  night  and  day  over 
that  suit  until  he  obtained  a  good  settlement.  I  can 
see  the  dear  old  General,  now,  smoking  a  cheap 
black  cigar  and  going  over  reams  of  testimony. 

About  1892  we  dissolved  and  he  united  with  Gibson 
and  John  Whiting,  '74.  Jack  Whiting  the  General 
loved  more  than  any  other  man  in  the  world,  and  when 
Jack  died  in  1893,  he  felt  his  loss  deeply.  He  con- 
tinued on  with  Gibson  and  Tomlinson,  Yale  '85,  then 
went  into  Delancey  Nicoll's  district  attorney's  office, 
where  he  labored,  convicting  Carlisle  Harris  and  other 
miscreants,  until  1901,  then  with  Tomlinson  &  Smith, 
at  48  Wall  Street,  until  1904,  and  then  alone  at  32 
Nassau  until  his  death. 

He  was  always  well  in  health  until  his  nerves  and 
brain  gave  out  in  May,  1902,  I  think,  when  he  went 


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abroad,  and  came  back  wholly  recovered.  I  think  the 
last  time  I  saw  him  was  when  I  gave  a  little  dinner  at 
Steven's  House,  Lake  Placid,  in  September,  1906,  to 
several  lawyers,  and  to  Stapler.  At  that  time  he  told 
me  of  his  affairs  and  that  he  felt  in  the  best  of  health 
and  prepared  for  big  work  at  the  law.  He  died,  I 
believe,  from  going  to  work  instead  of  to  bed. 

He  was  a  fine,  high-souled  man  in  all  he  did  and  said. 
Had  he  lived,  I  feel  he  would  have  attained,  some  day, 
his  ambition  to  sit  on  the  Supreme  Court  bench.  He 
left  a  widow  and  three  sons  and  one  daughter,  and  was 
exceptionally  happy  in  his  home  relations.  I  consider 
him  one  of  the  great  successes  of  '74. 

J.  S.  Wood. 
Chauncey  Clark  Starkweather 

Lawyer  and  Writer 

Address— Care  Yale  Club,  30  West  Forty- fourth  Street,  New  York 

City 

Born  November  7,  1851,  in  Chicago,  111.,  the  son  of  Charles 
Robert  and   Mary    (Eager)    Starkweather. 

He  prepared  at  Newton  Centre,  Mass.,  and  the  Lake  Forest 
Academy. 

He  was  married  November  8,  1882,  in  New  York  City,  to  Miss 
Isabella  B.  Anstey,  daughter  of  William  Wilson  Anstey  (died  in 
1897),  formerly  of  New  York  City  and  auditor  for  the  New 
York  Central  &  Harlem  River  Railroad,  and  great-great-grand- 
daughter of  Christopher  Anstey,  the  author  of  the  "Bath  Guide," 
who  has   a  tablet  in  Westminster  Abbey.     They  have   one   child: 

Nina  Isabella,  born  in  New  York  City,  January  30,   1887. 

Starkweather  writes: 

"I  entered  the  Class  of  '72  in  1868,  leaving  to  go 
abroad  with  a  tutor,  Robert  Porter  Keep.     The  fact 


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that  before  joining  '74  I  had  spent  nearly  a  year  in 
Athens  undoubtedly  influenced  my  after  life,  as  I 
imbibed  a  love  for  modern  languages,  which  I  have 
always  cherished.  I  have  spent  many  years  in  Europe. 
During  the  first  year  I  learned  to  speak  modern  Greek. 
On  my  second  visit  I  paid  more  attention  to  French, 
which  I  had,  from  my  youth,  spoken  fairly  well;  and 
while  abroad  recently  for  a  stay  of  a  year  and  a  half, 
I  spent  many  months  in  dear,  delightful  Italy,  and  did 
my  best  with  the  fascinating  Italian  language,  speaking 
it  'fearlessly.'  Andreally  the  old  ablatives  'come  handy.' 
I  have  translated  many  books  from  the  French,  have 
moiled  and  toiled  for  several  large  publishers  in  New 
York,  and  have  been  on  the  editorial  staff  of  several 
weeklies.      But,  as  before  mentioned,   I  have  always 


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been  able  to  knock  off  work  and  go  to  Europe  when  I 
felt  inclined.  I  have  enjoyed  lectures  at  the  Sorbonne 
and  browsing  in  the  huge  public  library  in  Paris.  At 
one  time  I  was  a  member  of  seven  clubs  and  associa- 
tions, but  have  dropped  all  except  the  Yale  Club  of 
Xew  York,  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  and 
the  Dwight  Alumni  Association. 

"I  was  graduated  from  the  Columbia  Law  School 
in  the  class  of  1877,  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Xew  York 
in  1877  and  practiced  for  several  years.  I  take  a  case 
now,  semi-occasionally. 

"We  have  a  place  on  the  Niagara  river,  at  Lewiston, 
the  house  having  been  built  by  Mrs.  Starkweather's 
grandfather  in  1836.  The  classmate  whom  I  see  most 
frequently  is  John  Seymour  Wood." 

George  Milton  Stearns 

Consulting  Actuary 
Address — Palace   Hotel,   Los   Angeles,   Calif. 

Born  April  12,  1852,  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  the  son  of  Josiah 
Milton  and   Freelove   Phillips    (Mclntyre)    Stearns. 

He  prepared  at  the  Hartford  (Conn.)   High  School. 

He  was  married  November  26,  1877,  in  West  Hartford,  Conn., 
to  Miss  Annie   M.   Thomson.     They  have  three  children: 

Thomson,   born   in   Topeka,   Kans.,    November,    1879. 

Phillips  Bonnel,  born  in  Topeka,  Kans.,  1880. 

Malcolm,   Dartmouth   '07,  born  in   Roxbury,  Mass.,    1886. 

Stearns  was  in  the  Union  Theological  Seminary, 
Xew  York  City,  from  1874  to  1877,  receiving  the 
degree  of  B.D.  in  1877.  He  taught  in  New  York 
City  for  a  year  and  was  a  professor  in  Washington 
College,  Topeka,  Kans.,  from  1878  to  1886.     He  then 


202  BIOGRAPHIES 

became  eastern  manager  for  the  Kansas  Loan  and 
Trust  Company  of  Topeka,  living  in  Boston,  Mass., 
from  1886  to  1889.  From  1889  to  1895  he  was  in 
Springfield,  Mass.,  as  investment  banker  in  the  firm  of 
Woodbury,  Moulton  &  Stearns.  From  1895  to  1896 
he  was  receiver  of  the  Staten  Island  Life,  Heat  & 
Power  Company  of  Port  Richmond.  Since  1896  he 
has  been  connected  with  the  following  companies  in  the 
capacity  of  actuary:  1896  to  1897,  with  the  Fidelity 
Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Philadelphia,  Pa. ; 
1897,  with  the  Merchant's  Life  Insurance  Association 
of  St.  Louis,  Mo.;  1897,  with  the  Southwestern  Life 
Insurance  Company  of  Marshalltown,  Iowa;  1898  to 
1899,  with  the  Northern  Life  Association;  1899  to 
1904,  in  Des  Moines,  Iowa;  1905,  with  the  Guarantee 
Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Davenport,  Iowa ; 
1906  to  1907  with  the  Cedar  Rapids  Life  Insurance 
Company  of  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa;  1907  to  1909  with 
the  Continental  Life  Insurance  Company,  Cedar 
Rapids,  Iowa;  1909  to  1910,  with  the  Beneficial  Life 
Company  of  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 

In  March,  1910,  he  went  to  Los  Angeles  for  a  vaca- 
tion, the  first  in  many  years,  expecting  in  September  of 
that  year  to  be  connected  with  the  San  Francisco  Life 
Insurance  Company,  as  assistant  secretary  and  actuary. 

He  decided,  however,  after  a  short  experience  in 
this  position,  to  settle  in  Los  Angeles  as  consulting 
actuary. 

Stearns  has  taken  active  part  in  politics.  In  Kansas, 
as  a  Republican,  he  was  a  candidate  (unsuccessful)  for 
the  nomination  for  superintendent  of  public  instruction. 
He  was  treasurer  of  the  Kansas  State  Temperance 
Union  and  for  three  years  helped  to  make  prohibition 


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there  a  success.     He  has  also  been  state  treasurer  of 
the  Congregational  churches. 

In  New  York  he  was  a  member  of  the  Cherry 
Diamond  Athletic  Club  while  it  was  in  existence.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  University  Club  of  Salt  Lake  City, 
is  a  Knight  Templar,  a  thirty-second  Scottish  Rite 
Mason  and  a  Knight  of  Pythias. 


Robert  Brown  Stimson 

Lawyer 
Business  address — 1003  South  Third  Street,  Terre  Haute,  Ind. 

Born  June  23,  1844,  in  Noblesville,  Ind.,  the  son  of  William 
Nelson  and  Mary  Wilson   (Johnson)    Stimson. 

He  prepared  at  the  Wabash  College  Preparatory  School,  Craw- 
fordsville,    Ind.,    and    was    a    member    of    the    Class    of    '70    in 


204  BIOGRAPHIES 

Wabash  until  Junior  year.  He  graduated  from  the  Yale  Theo- 
logical School  with  the  Class  of  '73,  and  entered  '74  Academic 
at  the  beginning  of  Senior  year. 

He  was  married  September  1,  1874,  in  Alamo,  Ind.,  to  Miss 
Edna  Brown,  daughter  of  Ira  L.  and  Elizabeth  J.  Brown.  They 
have  had  two  children: 

Mary,  Coates  College  for  Women  '97,  born  in  Alamo,  Ind., 
September  9,   1875. 

Lucy,  born  in  Alamo,  Ind.,  September  9,  1875,  died  in  Terre 
Haute,  Ind.,  April  5,  1903. 

Stimson  writes: 

"In  1874,  on  leaving  New  Haven,  I  took  charge  of 
the  Broadway  Presbyterian  Church  in  Logansport, 
Ind.  Toward  the  end  of  the  second  year  I  resigned 
that  charge  and  took  up  the  study  of  law.  I  served 
two  years  as  deputy  prosecuting  attorney  of  D.  B. 
McConnell  in  Cass  and  Pulaski  counties,  Ind.  (1876- 
1878).  Was  then  appointed  United  States  commis- 
sioner at  Logansport,  Ind.,  by  Judge  W.  Q.  Gresham, 
and  held  that  position  until  June,  1880,  when  I  removed 
to  Terre  Haute,  where  I  have  since  lived.  Just  after 
election  of  that  year,  D.  P.  Baldwin,  attorney  general 
of  Indiana,  appointed  me  his  assistant,  with  charge  of 
the  business  of  that  office  in  the  southwestern  part  of 
the  state.  Held  this  appointment  two  years,  and  then 
formed  a  partnership  for  the  practice  of  the  law  in 
Terre  Haute,  with  my  brother,  S.  C.  Stimson,  which 
partnership  still  continues.  In  1890  I  was  elected  city 
attorney  of  Terre  Haute,  which  office  I  held  two  years. 
Was  judge  pro  tern,  of  the  superior  court  of  Vigo 
County,  for  the  March  term,  1898.  Since  that  I  have 
held  no  public  office,  but,  in  addition  to  my  general 
practice,  have  been  counsel  for  the  Anti-Saloon  League, 


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the  Terre  Haute  Civic  League  and  other  like  organiza- 
tions. Have  departed  from  Sumner's  teachings  on 
political  economy,  and  stumped  the  county  for  Harrison 
in  1888. 

"I  have  not  been  in  New  Haven  or  met  any  of  the 
Class  since  I  graduated,  except  Baldwin.  Aldis  I 
caught  sight  of  once  in  Chicago.  Once  I  called  at 
Joy's  office  in  St.  Louis,  but  did  not  find  him  in.  Occa- 
sional circulars  have  reached  me  from  the  Class  Secre- 
tary, one  letter,  a  business  notice  from  Robbins  and 
one  from  Stapler. 

"I  was  perhaps  the  oldest  man  in  the  Class.  On 
June  23,  1911,  I  began  my  sixty-seventh  year.  I  have 
had  one  loss;  my  daughter  Lucy,  who  died  April  5, 
1903.     Otherwise  time  has  used  me  well." 


206  BIOGRAPHIES 

William  Earl  Dodge  Stokes 

Formerly  a  Builder  and  Contractor  in  New  York  City 

Address — The  Ansonia,  Broadway  and  Seventy- third  Street,  New 

York  City 

Born  May  23,  1853,  in  New  York  City,  the  son  of  James 
Stokes,  born  January  31,  1804-,  died  August  1,  1881,  and  Caroline 
(Phelps)  Stokes,  born  November  30,  1812,  died  March  9,  1881. 

He  prepared  at   Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass. 

He  was  married  January  5,  1895,  in  New  York  City,  to  Miss 
Rita  Hernandez  de  Alva  Acosta,  from  whom  he  has  since  been 
divorced.     They  had  one  child: 

William  Earl  Dodge  Stokes,  2d,  born  in  New  York,  January 
3,   1896. 

He  was  married  a  second  time  February  11,  1911,  in  Jersey 
City  Heights,  to  Miss  Helen  Elwood,  daughter  of  John  B. 
Elwood  of  Denver. 

After  graduation  Stokes  became  engaged  in  mer- 
cantile pursuits  in  New  York  City,  as  builder  and 
contractor.     He  writes: 

"I  have  been  building  houses  for  a  living,  but  now 
since  I  have  gotten  old  and  decrepit,  I  have  been 
elected  president  of  the  Kensico-Kensington  Ceme- 
teries, the  largest  cemeteries  outside  of  New  York,  and 
I  am  building  comfortable  homes  for  the  dead.  I  am 
president  of  one  or  two  other  companies,  but  what  is 
there  in  it  when  you  come  to  die?" 

He  is  much  interested  in  the  advancement  of  farming. 
He  considers  that  the  knowledge  of  the  principles  of 
heredity,  of  the  breeding  of  horses  and  domestic  animals 
will  add  to  the  mental  and  physical  improvement  of 
mankind.  He  says  that  he  considers  animal  breeding 
quite  as  important  as  the  careful  breeding  of  the 
human  race. 


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WILLIAM  EARL  DODGE  STOKES 


He  is  treasurer  of  the  Onward  Construction  Com- 
pany, president  of  the  Kensico- Kensington  Cemetery, 
president  of  the  Chesapeake  Western  Railway,  presi- 
dent of  the  Hef  Chemical  Company,  president  and 
proprietor  of  the  Patchen  Wilkes  Stock  Farm.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Union  League,  Manhattan,  St. 
Nicholas,  Lawyers'  and  Yacht  clubs  of  New  York 
City,  the  Down  Town  Association,  and  the  Seawan- 
haka,  Westchester,  Meadowbrook,  Chicago,  New 
England  and  other  clubs.  He  is  associated  with  the 
Cuban  Junta  and  is  a  member  of  the  executive  committee 
of  the  Cuban  League  of  the  United  States  of  America. 
He  has  been  appointed  by  the  Imperial  Russian 
Government  official  correspondent  for  horse,  with  the 
rank  by  courtesy  and  uniform.     He  is  a  member  of 


208  BIOGRAPHIES 

the   Morgan    Horse    Club,    and    is    on   the    executive 
committee  of  the  trotting  Horse  Breeders'  Club. 
He  has  written  many  articles  on  breeding. 

Ambrose  Everett  Stone 

Head  Master  of  the  Stone  Tutoring  School 

Business   address — 316   West   Fifty-sixth   Street,   New   York   City 

Permanent  address — Goshen,  Mass. 

Born  October  17,  1850,  in  Goshen,  Mass.,  the  son  of  Amos  H. 
and  Sophia   (Parsons)    Stone. 

He  prepared  at  the  South  Berkshire  Institute,  New  Marlboro, 
Mass. 

He  was  married  August  25,  1879,  in  New  York  City,  to  Miss 
Kate  Olive  Catterlin,  Synodical  College,  Fulton,  Mo.,  '73, 
daughter  of  Solomon  Catterlin  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  a  retired 
steamship  captain.  They  have  had  one  child:  born  February  10, 
1881,   and   died  at  birth. 

Stone  writes: 

"I  came  to  New  York  in  the  summer  of  1874  and 
at  once  began  teaching.  My  first  position  was  that  of 
principal  of  the  Boys'  School  of  the  New  York  Orphan 
Asylum,  at  Seventy-fourth  Street  and  Broadway. 
From  1875  to  1876  I  taught  in  the  German  American 
Institute  at  1509  Broadway.  In  1876  I  was  for  a  time 
principal  of  the  South  Berkshire  Institute,  in  New 
Marlboro,  Mass.  From  1877  to  1879  I  taught  Latin, 
Greek  and  mathematics,  in  the  school  of  Mr.  Marl- 
borough Churchill,  450  Madison  Avenue,  New  York 
City.  In  the  meantime  I  had  been  attending  lectures 
at  the  Columbia  College  Law  School  and  in  1878 
received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  that  institution,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar.     From  1879  to 


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AMBROSE    EVERETT    STONE 


1881  I  practiced  law  in  association  with  Mr.  William 
Ives  Washburn,  with  offices  at  111  Broadway.  In 
1881  I  resumed  teaching,  first  as  a  tutor,  later  as  Head 
Master  of  a  preparatory  school  for  boys.  From  1890 
to  1898  I  was  located  at  561  Fifth  Avenue.  During 
the  past  twelve  years  I  have  conducted  a  boarding 
and  day  school  for  boys  at  316  West  Fifty-sixth 
Street.  My  classes  have  been  small  but  my  patrons  are 
mostly  wealthy  people,  who  paid  me  well  for  my 
instruction.  Among  pupils  prepared  for  college  under 
my  tuition  were  sons  of  well-known  men.  I  have 
prepared  boys  for  most  of  the  Eastern  colleges,  but 
mainly  for  Yale,  Columbia  and  Harvard.  Since  1900 
I  have  spent  a  part  of  every  year  at  the  family  home- 
stead in  Goshen,  Mass.,  where  each  summer  I  have 
tutored  a  few  boys  and  combined  in  a  way  veiy  agree- 


210 


BIOGRAPHIES 


able  to  me,  the  life  agricultural  and  the  life  pedagog- 
ical. I  have  been  for  some  years  past  a  member  of 
the  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church,  whose  pastor,  Dr. 

Charles  E.  Jefferson, 
Yale  Hon.  '03,  is  not  un- 
known at  Yale.  In  later 
years  I  have  taken  a 
deeper  interest  in  the 
work  of  that  church  and 
recently  I  was  chosen  one 
of  its  deacons. 

"On  the  whole  my  life 
since  1874  has  been  the 
life  of  a  student,  happy 
in  its  domestic  relations, 
fairly  prosperous,  fairly 
successful,  uneventful, 
without  any  great  excite- 
ment or  great  honors." 

GEORGE    WOODWARD    STONE 


George  Woodward  Stone 

Lawyer 

Residence — Hosea  and  Oxford  Terrace,  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

Business  address — 122  West  Fourth  Street,  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

Born  January  17,  1852,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  the  son  of  Richard 
H.   and  Sarah  W.   Stone. 

He  prepared  at  the  Chickering   Institute,   Cincinnati,   Ohio. 
He   is   unmarried. 

After  graduation  Stone  studied  law  at  the  Cincinnati 
Law  School  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  April, 
1876.     He  is  now  practicing  law  in  Cincinnati. 


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*Edward  Emerson  Swallow 

Died   1887 

Born  July  20,  1852,  in  Wilmington,  Mass.,  the  son  of  Rev. 
Joseph  Emerson  Swallow,  Dartmouth  '43,  and  Maria  Elizabeth 
(Gibson)   Swallow. 

He  entered  college  from  the  Norwich  Free  Academy,  maintained 
a  high  rank  throughout  his  course,  and  graduated  with  oration 
honors,   among   the   first   fourteen   of   the   Class. 

He  was  married  October  15,  1881,  to  Miss  Mary  Louise  Sewall, 
of  Waltham. 

On  graduation  Swallow  began  a  course  of  study  in 
the  Yale  Divinity  School,  but  was  induced  three  months 
later  to  take  charge  of  the  High  School  in  Pottsville, 
Pa.  He  continued  to 
teach  in  Pottsville  until 
1878,  and  was  then  simi- 
larly employed  for  a  few 
months  in  Garden  City, 
L.  I.  He  then  began 
medical  studies  at  the 
Jefferson  Medical  Col- 
lege in  Philadelphia, 
where  he  graduated  in 
1880.  In  January,  1881, 
he  began  the  practice  of 
medicine  in  Waltham, 
Mass.  He  afterward 
spent  three  years,  1884  to 
1887,  in  study  in  Vienna 
and  Paris,  and  on  his  re- 
turn went  to  Wilming- 
ton, N.  C,  with  the  idea  of  settling  there  permanently. 
His  health,  which  had  been  delicate,  failed  so  rapidly 
that  he  died  December  31,  1887,  in  Wilmington,  N.  C, 
in  his  thirty-sixth  year. 


EDWARD    EMERSON    SWALLOW 


212  BIOGRAPHIES 

Charles  Lasselle  Swan 

Lawyer,  retired 
Address — Santa  Barbara,  Calif. 

Born  April  22,  1852,  in  Clinton,  Mass.,  the  son  of  Charles  L. 
and  Lucy   (Waters)   Swan. 

He  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Haven, 
Conn. 

He  was  married  April  17,  1901,  in  Redlands,  Calif.,  to  Miss 
Kate  W.  Gardner,  daughter  of  A.  H.  Gardner,  an  orange  grower 
of  Redlands,  Calif.     They  have  had  no  children. 

Swan  writes: 

"Graduated  from  Yale  Law  School  in  1877.     I  then 

practiced  law  in  New 
Haven  in  association  with 
James  Gardner  Clark, 
Yale  '61,  until  1890,  and 
for  shorter  periods  with 
James  H.  Webb,  Yale 
Law  School  '77,  and  Ed- 
ward H.  Rogers,  Yale 
'75,  and  Yale  Law  School 
'77. 

"In  1890  I  removed  to 
Redlands,  Calif.,  and  con- 
tinued law  practice  there 
until  1894.  I  then  en- 
gaged in  orange  raising 
from  1890  to  1906.    Since 

CHARLES    LASSELLE    SWAN  then 

fOtium  cum  dig 

Recubans  sub  tegmine  fagif 

much  of  the  time  being  spent  in  Santa  Barbara,  Calif." 


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Levi  Sanderson  Tenney 

Lawyer 

Residence — 66  Plymouth  Street,  Montclair,  N.  J. 

Business  address — 27  William  Street,  New  York  City 

Born  January  19,  1853,  in  Orwell,  Vt.,  the  son  of  Levi  S.  and 
Maria   (Mallett)   Tenney. 

He  prepared  at  Wilbraham,  Mass.,  and  at  Amenia,  N.  Y. 

He  was  married  June  15,  1887,  in  New  Brighton,  Staten  Island, 
N.  Y.,  to  Miss  Louise  A.  Todd,  daughter  of  George  W.  Todd,  a 
merchant  of  New  York  City.     They  have  had  seven  children: 

D wight,  born  in  New  York  City,  May  20,   1889. 

Malcolm,  born  in  New  York  City,  March  26,   1891. 

Grace  Amelia,  born  in  Glen  Ridge,  N.  J.,  September  3,  1892, 
died  in  Glen  Ridge,  N.  J.,  May  15,  1901. 

Helen  Louise,  born  in  Glen  Ridge,  N.  J.,  June   18,   1895. 

Levi  Sanderson,  born  in  Glen  Ridge,  N.  J.,  June   15,  1897. 

George,  born  in  Glen  Ridge,  N.  J.,  February  8,   1899. 

Elizabeth  Rundle,  born  in  Glen  Ridge,  N.  J.,  May  8,  1902. 

Tenney  writes: 

"In  July  after  graduation  I  took  up  my  residence 
in  New  York  City,  and  entered  the  law  office  of  Man 
&  Parsons  at  56  Wall  Street  as  a  law  student  and  later 
in  the  year  I  attended  the  Columbia  Law  School  in 
connection  with  my  office  work. 

"After  the  first  year  I  gave  up  the  law  school  and 
became  a  clerk  in  Man  &  Parsons'  office  on  a  salary. 
In  September,  1876,  I  was  admitted  to  the  bar  as  an 
attorney  and  counselor-at-law.  I  remained  with  that 
law  firm  until  January  1,  1881,  when  I  took  an  office 
alone.  In  November,  1883,  I  took  a  position  as  clerk 
with  the  law  firm  of  Prichard,  Smith  &  Dougherty  of 
New  York  City,  where  I  attended  to  my  own  practice 
and  their  real  estate  work.      Mr.  Prichard  and  Mr. 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


Smith  successively  retired  from  business  and  I  con- 
tinued on  with  Mr.  Dougherty  until  1902,  when  the  law 
firm  of  Dougherty,  Olcott  &  Tenney  was  formed, 
consisting  of  J.  Hampden  Dougherty,  J.  Van  Vechten 
Olcott  and  myself.  In  1908  this  firm  was  dissolved  and 
I  have  continued  my  offices  with  Mr.  Dougherty  down 
to  the  present  time. 

"On  account  of  my  family,  in  1892,  I  moved  my 
residence  to  Glen  Ridge,  N.  J.,  and  resided  there  until 
1905,  when  I  moved  to  my  present  residence,  in  Mont- 
clair,  N.  J.,  about  fourteen  miles  from  my  office. 

"I  have  never  held  public  office.  I  have  been  for 
many  years  a  vestryman  in  the  church  in  Glen  Ridge 
and  a  delegate  to  the  Diocesan  Convention  many  times. 

"I  joined  the  Association  of  the  Bar  of  Xew  York 
City  in  1881.     I  am  a  member  of  the  City  Club,  the 


LEVI    SANDERSON    TENNEY 


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215 


ALFRED    BEAUMONT    THACHER 


Reform  Club,  the  Alpha  Delta  Phi  Club  in  New  York 
City  and  the  local  clubs  in  Montclair.  I  have  made 
one  trip  to  Europe.     My  favorite  exercise  is  bicycling." 


Alfred  Beaumont  Thacher 

Lawyer 
Residence — 486  Scotland  Road,  South  Orange,  N.  J. 
Business  address — 62  Cedar  Street,  New  York  City 

Born  March  22,  1854,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Thomas 
A.  and  Elizabeth   (Day)  Thacher. 

He  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Haven, 
Conn. 

He  was  married  June  1,  1904,  in  Orange,  N.  J.,  to  Miss 
Emma  C,  Erkenbrecher,  daughter  of  Cornelius  Erkenbrecher,  a 
business  man  of  Cincinnati.     They  have  one  child: 

Mary  Day,  born  in  Orange,  N.  J.,  December  16,  1906. 


216  BIOGRAPHIES 

Thacher  writes: 

"After  graduation  I  spent  the  first  year  in  study, 
having  received  a  fellowship  in  Yale  College.  From 
1875  to  1877  I  was  a  private  teacher  in  Oakland,  Calif. 
After  that  I  was  a  tutor  in  Yale  until  1879.  From 
that  time  to  date  I  have  been  practicing  law  in 
New  York  City,  and  am  now  a  partner  in  the  firm  of 
Simpson,  Thacher  &  Bartlett." 


James  Mulford  Townsend 

Lawyer 

Residence — 535   Park  Avenue,   New  York  City 

Business   address — 165    Broadway,   New   York   City 

Born  August  26,  1852,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  the  son  of  James 
M.  and  Maria   (Clark)    Townsend. 

He  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Haven, 
Conn. 

He  was  married  November  15,  1882,  in  Lexington,  Va.,  to 
Miss  Harriet  Bailey  Campbell,  daughter  of  John  Lyle  Campbell, 
formerly  a  professor  in  Washington  and  Lee  University,  of 
Lexington,   Va.     They   have   six   children: 

Harriet  Campbell  (Townsend)  Bottomley,  born  in  New  York 
City,  October  3,   1884. 

James  Mulford,  Jr.,  Yale  '08,  born  in  Pelham  Manor,  N.  Y., 
June  20,   1886. 

John  Campbell,  Yale  '10,  born  in  Pelham  Manor,  N.  Y., 
January  30,   1888. 

Edward  Howard,  Yale  '12,  born  in  Pelham  Manor,  N.  Y., 
February  8,  1890. 

Virginia  Campbell,  born  in  Pelham  Manor,  N.  Y.,  April  27,  1892. 

Donald  Campbell,  born  in  Pelham  Manor,  N.  Y.,  April  27,  1892. 

Townsend  writes: 

"After  graduation  in  1874,  I  entered  the  Columbia 
Law  School  in  New  York  City,  and  at  the  same  time, 


GRADUATES 


217 


JAMES    MULFORD    TOWNSEND 


the  office  of  Chittenden  &  Hubbard  of  the  same  city. 
I  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  Columbia  in  1876 
and  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar  and  at  the 
same  time  became  a  partner  in  the  above  named  firm, 
which  soon  afterward  was  changed  to  Chittenden, 
Townsend  &  Chittenden.  This  firm  dissolved  in  1888, 
and  I  practiced  law  alone  until  about  eight  or  nine 
years  ago,  when  I  formed  the  firm  of  Townsend  & 
Avery,  now  Townsend,  Avery  &  Button. 

"My  chief  connection  with  Yale  and  Yale  affairs  is 
that  in  1888  I  was  appointed  lecturer  in  the  Yale  Law 
School  and  lectured  there  each  year  for  several  years. 
After  that  the  course  was  much  interrupted  by  various 
long  absences  on  business.  It  has  been  further  inter- 
rupted in  the  last  seven  or  eight  years  by  my  duties 
as  general  counsel  of  the  E.  I.  duPont  de  Nemours 


218  BIOGRAPHIES 

Powder  Company,  which  I  formed  in  1903,  known  as 
the  Powder  Trust,  which  was  attacked  by  the  United 
States  Government  under  the  Sherman  Act  in  1907, 
since  which  time  I  have  been  continuously  engaged  in 
the  trial  of  the  case.  I  have,  however,  gone  back  to 
New  Haven  and  lectured  whenever  it  was  possible. 

"I  am  a  member  of  the  University  Club,  Century 
Association  and  various  other  clubs  and  associations, 
here  and  elsewhere;  also  have  been  for  a  number  of 
years  a  trustee  of  the  New  York  Law  School." 

Burt  Van  Horn 

Capitalist  and  Fruit  Grower 

Address — The  Dakota,   1   West  Seventy-second  Street,  New  York 
City,   and   Niagara   Falls,   N.    Y. 

Born  in  Newfane,  in  Niagara  County,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Burt 
and  Charlotte   T.    (Goodell)    Van  Horn. 

He  prepared  in  Lockport,  N.  Y. 

He  was  married  December  22,  1881,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Miss  Helen  Singer  Hyde,  daughter  of  B.  B.  Hyde  (died  in  1875), 
formerly  a  merchant  of  New  York  City.     They  have  had  one  child: 

Burt  Van  Horn,  3d,  born  in  Newfane,  N.  Y.,  September  21, 
1882,   died  in   Brooklyn,   N.   Y.,   January   28,    1895. 

Van  Horn  writes: 

"After  graduating  from  college,  I  was  engaged  in 
farming  in  Niagara  County,  N.  Y.,  for  one  year.  I 
then  entered  Columbia  College  Law  School  and  gradu- 
ated in  1878.  While  in  the  law  school  I  was  a  clerk  in 
the  New  York  Customs  House.  After  graduation 
from  the  law  school  I  was  engaged  in  loaning  money 
for  life  insurance  companies  in  western  New  York,  in 
connection  Math  my  father.     In  1880  I  bought  the  farm 


GRADUATES 


219 


BURT    VAN    HORN 


of  three  hundred  and  fifty  acres  (Niagara  County, 
N.  Y.),  which  my  grandfather  took  up  from  the  state 
over  a  hundred  and  ten  years  ago,  and  which  my  father 
had  owned.  This  I  managed  until  April  1,  1910,  when 
I  sold  it.  During  this  time  I  engaged  in  the  electric 
railway  business  in  western  New  York,  and  was 
general  manager  of  the  Buffalo  and  Niagara  Falls 
Electric  Railway,  and  subsequently  of  the  International 
Traction  Company,  which  owned  the  whole  system  in 
Buffalo  and  in  Niagara  and  Erie  counties.  I  resigned 
from  this  position  in  1901  and  since  have  been  engaged 
in  fruit  raising  in  Niagara  County,  N.  Y.,  and  in  the 
Hood  River  Valley,  in  Oregon,  and  in  managing  the 
Cold  Storage  and  Ice  Manufacturing  Plant  in  Niagara 
Falls. 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


"I  have  taken  the  Mediterranean  trip  and  spent 
two  summers  in  Europe;  besides  have  traveled  gener- 
ally over  the  United  States  and  Canada,  and  have  been 
to  Alaska  and  the  West  Indies. 

"I  am  a  member  of  the  University  and  Transporta- 
tion clubs  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  and  of  the  University 
and  Transportation  clubs  of  New  York  City." 


Russell  Walden 

Lawyer 
Residence — 40  Cambridge  Place,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Business  address — 80  Broadway,  New  York  City 

Born  December  8,  1851,  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of 
Daniel  T.  and  Caroline  A. 
Walden. 

He  prepared  at  the  Brooklyn 
Collegiate  and  Polytechnic 
Institute. 

He  was  married  December 
21,  1882,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
to  Miss  Katherine  Bartling 
(died  on  August  25,  1908), 
daughter  of  Charles  C.  Bart- 
ling.    They  had  no  children. 

He  was  married  a  second 
time,  June  5,  1911,  at  Beach 
Bluff,  Mass.,  to  Mrs.  Harriett 
Louise  Waldenburg,  daughter 
of  Horace  Dickinson  Moody, 
of  Canton,  N.  Y. 

Walden  writes: 

"I  have  resided  in  Brooklyn  during  the  entire  period 
since    1874.      After    graduation    from    the    Columbia 


RUSSELL    WALDEN 


GRADUATES  221 


Law  School  in  1876,  I  was  a  student  in  the  office  of 
William  P.  Dixon,  Yale  '68,  for  a  year  or  so,  and 
later,  a  clerk  therein;  in  1882,  I  was  connected  with 
the  firm  of  Miller,  Peckham  &  Dixon,  and  became  a 
partner  in  said  firm  on  January  1,  1896,  and  continued 
as  such,  until  the  dissolution  of  that  firm  on  July  1, 
1900.  Then  I  became  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Peck- 
ham,  Miller  &  King,  and  continued  as  a  partner  in  the 
latter  firm  until  its  dissolution  on  July  1,  1906,  since 
which  date  I  have  been  with  the  successor  firm  of  Miller, 
King,  Lane  &  Trafford. 

"Am  a  member  of  the  Yale  Club  and  the  Crescent 
Athletic  Club  of  Brooklyn.  Have  seen  more  or  less 
of  most  of  our  classmates  living  in  and  around  New 
York  City." 

Charles  Rumford  Walker 

Physician 
Address— 18   Park  Street,  Concord,  N.   H. 

Born  February  13,  1852,  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  the  son  of  Joseph 
B.   and   Elizabeth   Lord    (Upham)    Walker. 

He   prepared  at   Phillips   Academy,   Exeter,    N.    H. 

He  was  married  on  January  18,  1888,  in  Boston,  Mass.,  to  Miss 
Frances  Sheafe,  daughter  of  William  Sheafe  of  Boston,  Mass. 
They  have  had  three   children,  all  born  in  Concord,  N.   H.: 

Sheafe,   Yale   '14,  born   November    16,    1888. 

Joseph  Burbeen,  born  June  21,  1891,  died  in  Concord,  N.  H., 
August  4,   1892. 

Charles  Rumford,  Jr.,  born  July  31,   1893. 

Walker  writes: 

"I  began  the  study  of  medicine  at  the  Harvard 
Medical  School  in  the  fall  of  1874,  and  received  the 
degree  of  M.D.  in  June,  1878.     From  July  1,  1877, 


222 


BIOGRAPHIES 


to  January  1,  1878,  I  was  medical  externe  at  the 
Boston  City  Hospital  and  for  two  years,  ending 
January  1,  1879,  was  a  surgical  house  officer.  The 
following  two  years,  1879  and  1880,  I  spent  in  medical 
study  and  travel  in  Europe.  On  leaving  Boston  I 
went  to  Dublin,  Ireland,  for  a  course  in  obstetrics  at 
the  Rotunda  Hospital  and  later  spent  some  time  in 
London.  The  summer  of  1879  was  devoted  to  the 
study  of  German  at  Heidelberg  and  that  fall  and 
winter  were  spent  in  Vienna.  The  spring  found  me 
in  Strassburg,  and  the  fall  back  again  in  Vienna. 

"Early  in  1881  I  began  the  life  of  a  general  prac- 
titioner of  medicine  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  my  native 
town,  where  I  have  remained.  For  twenty-five  years 
I  have  been  on  the  surgical  staff  of  our  hospital  and 


CHARLES    RUMFORD    WALKER 


GRADUATES  223 


am  now  serving  my  eleventh  year  as  physician  at  St. 
Paul's  School.  I  have  served  both  as  assistant  surgeon 
and  surgeon  of  the  New  Hampshire  National  Guard, 
and  am  a  member  of  the  city  board  of  health.  In  1899 
I  was  elected  president  of  the  New  Hampshire  State 
Medical  Society  and  held  the  office  during  the  usual 
term.  At  present  I  am  chairman  of  the  board  of 
councilors.  I  am  a  member  of  the  American  Medical 
Association. 

"I  am  an  inactive  Republican,  but  served  as  alderman 
from  1892  to  1893  and  the  following  year  I  represented 
my  ward  in  the  State  Legislature  and  was  on  the 
public  health  committee  and  chairman  of  the  state 
library  committee. 

"I  have  little  time  for  outside  duties,  but  am  a 
trustee  of  the  New  Hampshire  Savings  Bank,  trustee 
of  the  Rolfe  and  Rumford  Asylum,  whose  funds 
support  and  care  for  twenty  girls,  and  trustee  and 
treasurer  of  the  Timothy  and  Abigail  B.  Walker 
Lecture  Fund,  which  provides  free  lectures  to  our 
citizens. 

"I  am  a  member  of  the  Wonolancet  and  Snow  Shoe 
clubs  of  Concord,  and  the  University  Club  of  Boston, 
Mass." 

His  writings  consist  mainly  of  medical  papers. 

Cornelius  Royal  Wallace 

Formerly  an  Instructor  in  the  Public  Schools  of  New  York  City 
Residence — Tuckahoe,   N.  Y. 

Born  October  27,  1845,  in  Boston,  Mass.,  the  son  of  Alfred 
and  Harriet   (Newell)   Wallace. 

He  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass. 


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BIOGRAPHIES 


He  was  married  March  6,  1885,  in  Greenwich,  Conn.,  to  Miss 
Anna  Schlumberger,  of  Stuttgart,  Germany,  daughter  of  Johann 
G.  Schlumberger,  Ph.D.,  professor  at  Freiburg,  and  of  Schell 
Schlumberger.     They  have  no  children. 

Upon  leaving  college  Wallace  entered  the  Union 
Theological  Seminary  in  New  York  City,  in  which  he 
remained  for  one  year  and  preached  part  of  two  years 
in  New  Hampshire  and  Indiana.  Late  in  the  fall  of 
1875  he  went  to  Chestnut  Hill,  Philadelphia,  as  a 
private  tutor  and  returned  to  New  York  in  the  fall  of 
1876,  where  he  entered  into  a  similar  engagement. 
From  1877  to  1905  he  was  a  teacher  in  the  public 
schools  of  New  York  City.  Since  the  latter  date  he 
has  retired  from  active  business. 


CORNELIUS    ROYAL    WALLACE 


GRADUATES 


225 


WILLIAM    NELSON    WASHBURN 


William  Xelson  Washburn 

Manufacturer   of   chairs,   Washburn   &   Heywood   Chair    Company 

Residence — Greenfield,  Mass. 

Business  address — Erving,   Mass. 

Permanent   address — 3    Franklin   Street,  Greenfield,   Mass. 

Born  July  30,  1851,  in  Orange,  Mass.,  the  son  of  William  B. 
and   Hannah    (Sweetser)    Washburn. 

He  prepared  at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass. 

He  was  married  July  21,  1880,  in  Chicago,  111.,  to  Miss  Jennie 
Eldridge  Daniels,  daughter  of  William  Yocum  Daniels,  of  Chicago, 
111.     They  have  had  two  children: 

One  died  at  birth. 

Leila  A.   Kinson,  born  in  Greenfield,   Mass.,  April   28,   188k 

Washburn  writes: 

"Have  always  lived  in  Greenfield,  Mass.,  and  since 
graduation  have  been  connected  in  one  and  another 


226 


BIOGRAPHIES 


capacity  with  the  Washburn  &  Heywood  Chair  Com- 
pany at  Erving,  Mass.  I  have  been  president  of  the 
Greenfield  Club  and  also  president  of  the  Greenfield 
Gas  Company. 

"At  present  I  am  director  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Greenfield,  Mass.;  trustee  of  the  Franklin 
Savings  Institution;  president  of  the  Greenfield 
Library  Association;  treasurer  of  the  Country  Club 
of  Greenfield  and  treasurer  of  the  Washburn  & 
Heywood  Chair  Company.     That's  all." 

Cameron  Davenport  Waterman 

Farmer  and  Real  Estate 
Address — 125  Lafayette  Avenue,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Born  August  9,  1852,  in  Bath,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Joshua  W. 
and  Eliza   (Davenport)   Waterman. 


CAMERON    DAVENPORT    WATERMAN 


GRADUATES 


227 


He  prepared  at  the   Detroit   (Mich.)    High   School. 

He  was  married  February  12,  1878,  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  to  Miss 
Elizabeth  H.  Beach,  daughter  of  Eben  C.  Beach,  with  the  Rathbone 
Stove  Company  of  Albany,  N.  Y.     They  have  had  two  children: 

Cameron  Beach,  Yale  '01,  born  December  20,   1878. 

Ira  Davenport,  Yale   '07,  born  June   18,   1883. 

Waterman  is  a  farmer,  having  purchased  a  farm  on 
a  large  island  in  the  Detroit  River,  near  Lake  Erie. 
In  a  former  Class  book  he  writes: 

"My  profession  is  farming,  and  I  hope  to  continue 
in  the  same  all  the  days  of  my  life." 

He  is  a  member  of  the  University  Club  of  New  York 
City,  Detroit  Club,  Athletic  Club,  Country  Club, 
Comedy  Club,  and  the 
Harmonie  Society,  all  of 
Detroit,  Mich. 


*Harvey  Weed 

Died   1892 

Born  August  12,  1852,  in 
Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of 
Francis  P.  and  Harriet  L. 
Weed. 

He  prepared  for  college  at 
Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass. 

He  was  unmarried. 


HARVEY    WEED 


After  graduation  Weed  studied  law  at  the  Albany 
Law  School  and  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from 
Union  College  in  1876.     He  practiced  his  profession 


228 


BIOGRAPHIES 


successfully  in  Newburgh  and  New  York  City  and  was 
at  one  time  a  candidate  for  the  district  attorneyship  of 
his  county. 

He  died  in  1892. 


Henry  deForest  Weekes 

Lawyer 

Residence — Oyster  Bay,  Nassau  County,  N.  Y. 

Business  address — 111   Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City 

Born  February  8,  1852,  in  New  York  City,  the  son  of  John  A. 
Weekes  and  of  Alice  D.  Weekes. 

He  prepared  at  the  Round  Hill  School,  Northampton,  Mass. 
He   is   unmarried. 


HENRY    DEFOREST    WEEKES 


GRADUATES  229 


Weekes  writes: 

"Became  a  member  of  the  bar  of  the  State  of  New 
York,  in  May,  1876,  and  remained  in  the  active  prac- 
tice of  my  profession  until  February,  1897,  when  I 
retired  from  active  practice. 

"Since  then  I  have  spent  much  time  in  visiting  such 
places  in  the  world  as  promised  to  give  me  the  most 
interest  and  pleasure  and  my  favorite  recreation  has 
been  the  one  which  promised  the  same  result." 

Ralph  Wells 

Ranching  and  Stock-raising 
Address — Craig,  Mont. 

Born  November  27,  1853,  in  New  York  City,  the  son  of  Ralph 
and  Sarah  Wells. 

He  prepared  at  M.  H.  Lyon's  Collegiate  Institute,  New  York 
City. 

He  was  married  December  22,  1890,  in  Truro,  Nova  Scotia,  to 
Miss  Bessie  L.  Miller  (died  February  13,  1908),  daughter  of 
Edward  Miller,  a  farmer  of  Truro.  They  had  two  children,  both 
born  in  Helena,  Mont.: 

Sarah  A.,  Montana  State  College  at  Bozeman,  born  September 
16,   1894. 

Ralph,  Jr.,  born  October  8,   1902. 

Wells  writes: 

"After  graduation  I  held  a  position  with  James 
Boyd  &  Company,  stock  brokers  in  Wall  Street,  New 
York  City,  for  over  a  year  and  then  getting  the 
western  fever,  in  1876,  I  started  for  Fort  Benton, 
Mont.  I  met  Dewey  Holbrook,  '74,  at  Fort  Benton, 
and  we  embarked  in  the  sheep  business,  which  I 
followed  up  with  varying  success  for  nearly  twenty-five 
years,  adding  cattle  and  horses  to  my  sheep  interests. 


230 


BIOGRAPHIES 


The  range  becoming  crowded,  I  sold  my  sheep  and 
now  confine  myself  to  cattle  almost  entirely.  My 
beef  steers,  thirty-five  head,  averaging  1,485  pounds 
each,  brought  the  highest  price,  seven  dollars  and  sixty 
cents  per  hundred  pounds,  live  weight,  last  October  in 
Chicago,  ever  paid  for  range  cattle,  in  any  market. 

"I  have  resided  in  this  neighborhood  since  1876, 
spending  several  winters  in  Helena  and  New  York 
City  and  six  months  in  Nova  Scotia.  Have  been 
justice  of  the  peace  for  many  years,  which  office  I  now 
hold.  Was  deputy  assessor  for  one  year  and  school 
trustee  for  a  long  time.  I  took  the  United  States 
census  in  my  county  in  1900  and  in  1910. 

"I  believe  in  the  old  saying,  a  rolling  stone  gathers 
no  moss,  and  I  am  liable  to  spend  the  rest  of  my  days 


RALPH    WELLS 


GRADUATES  231 


in  Montana.  Every  fall  I  plan  to  take  a  few  weeks 
off  for  a  good  time  hunting  and  fishing  in  the  grand 
old  Rockies. 

"Am  a  member  of  the 
Yale  Montana  Alumni 
Association.  Hope  to 
meet  the  old  boys  some 
day  at  their  Alumni  din- 
ner in  New  Haven.  If 
any  of  you  ever  come  to 
Montana  would  be  glad 
to  have  you  hunt  me  up. 


Tom  Adams,  '74,  once 
spent  the  day  with  me 
and  I  frequently  saw 
Dewey  Holbrook  in 
Great  Falls,  Mont. 
There  are.  not  many  Yale 
men  in  Montana,  but  two 
years    ago    we    held    up 

*  °  r  JOHN    BOWEN    WHITING 

President   Taft  at  our 

Helena  State  Fair  and  gave  him  a  rousing  reception." 
His  writings  consist  of  several  articles  for  Forest 
and  Stream  descriptive  of  life  in  the  far  west  and  some 
hunting  stories  published  mostly  from  1890  to  1892. 

*John  Bo  wen  Whiting 

Died   1895 

Born  October  31,  1852,  in  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  John  N. 
and  Sarah  L.  J.    (Sutherland)   Whiting. 

He  prepared  for  college  in  Orange,  N.  J.,  under  the  tutorship 
of  Reverend  F.  A.  Adams. 


232 


BIOGRAPHIES 


He  was  married  October  12,  1875,  to  Miss  Clarissa  M.  Lyman, 
daughter  of  Frederic  Lyman  of  Orange,  N.  J.  They  had  no 
children. 

After  graduation  Whit- 
ing spent  the  first  year  in 
the  Columbia  Law  School 
and  the  subsequent  six- 
teen months  in  study  in 
Berlin  and  Jena.  He 
then  completed  his  course 
at  Columbia  and  received 
the  degree  of  LL.B.  in 
1877.  From  that  date 
he  practiced  law  continu- 
ously in  New  York  City, 
at  first  with  his  father 
and  after  the  latter's 
death  with  William  Par- 
kin, Yale  '74,  and  with 
Hanson  C.  Gibson. 
He  died  suddenly,  at  his  residence  in  New  York  City, 
on  February  7,  1895,  after  ten  days'  confinement  from 
a  heavy  cold,  which  had  developed  into  the  grippe. 


ARTHUR    DEXTER    WHITTEMORE 


Arthur  Dexter  Whittemore 

Residence — 10   Howard  Avenue,   Utica,   N.   Y. 

Born  August  11,  1852,  in  Fitzwilliam,  N.  H.,  the  son  of  Thomas 
W.   and  Atossa    (Frost)   Whittemore. 

He  prepared  at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass.,  and 
was  connected  with  the  College  of  the  City  of  New  York  for 
about  six  months. 

He  was  married  December  14,  1876,  in  Utica,  N.  Y.,  to  Miss 
Margaret   E.    Owen,   Utica   Academy   '74,   daughter   of   James    P. 


GRADUATES  233 


Owen,    a    merchant    of    Utica,    N.    Y.      They    have    had    three 
children : 

Owen,  born  October  30,  1877,  died  December  26,  1881. 

Atossa  Frost,  born  January  24,   1882. 

Margaret,   born   May   30,    1883. 

After  graduation  and  until  1881,  Whittemore 
resided  at  9  East  Fifty-third  Street,  New  York  City. 
While  in  New  York  he  was  in  business  with  his  father 
and  uncle,  Whittemore  Brothers,  Broadway,  which  firm 
was  in  the  mirror  business.  In  1881  he  removed  to 
Utica  and  later  became  a  member  of  the  firm,  Tucker, 
Calder  &  Company,  wholesale  clothiers.  Shortly  after 
this,  his  health  failed,  and  he  has  been  able  to  do  very 
little  business  since. 

Thomas  Parmelee  Wickes 

Lawyer 

Business  address — 68   Post  Street,  San  Francisco,  Calif. 

Permanent    mail    address — Care    of    Hugo    D.    Newhouse,    Kohl 
Building,  San  Francisco,  Calif. 

Born  April  17,  1853,  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Eliphalet 
and   Ellen    (Parmelee)    Wickes. 

He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass. 

He  was  married  December  19,  1878,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Miss  Harriette  Douw  Alley,  who  died  May  26,  1899.  She  was 
a  daughter  of  George  Bolton  Alley  of  New  York  City.  They 
had  two  children,  both  born  in   New  York  City: 

Henry  Parmelee,  Yale  '00,  born  December  7,   1879. 

Marie  Louise,  born  December   18,   1882. 

He  was  married  a  second  time  May  30,  1901,  in  Lansingburgh, 
N.  Y.,  to  Miss  Frances  Bliss  Gillespy,  daughter  of  John  H. 
Gillespy,   of   Berkeley,   Calif.     They   have   one   son: 

Eliphalet,  born  in   New  York   City,  May  25,   1905. 


234 


BIOGRAPHIES 


Wickes  writes  as  follows  of  his  life  since  1874: 
"I  entered  Columbia  Law  School  in  the  fall  of  1874 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  the  State  of  New  York 
in  May,  1876,  receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  the 
same  year.  In  the  fall  of  that  year  I  was  appointed 
by  the  late  William  C.  Whitney,  Yale  '63,  who  was 
then  the  counsel  to  the  corporation  of  the  city  of  New 
York,  to  be  a  law  clerk  in  his  office ;  and  I  continued  to 
be  a  member  of  the  force  of  the  municipal  law  depart- 
ment, rising  by  successive  promotions  until  I  was  the 
second  assistant  in  the  office,  until  the  fall  of  1889, 
when  I  resigned,  leaving  Januarjr  1,  1890. 

"I  then  engaged  in  private  practice,  being  at  first 
largely  occupied  in  various  law  suits  on  behalf  of  the 
city   of   New   York   in   which   I   was   retained   upon 


THOMAS    PARMELEE  WICKES 


GRADUATES  235 


retiring  from  the  law  department;  and  afterwards,  on 
July  1,  1892,  I  formed  a  partnership  with  Edward  S. 
Hatch  of  New  York,  under  the  firm  name  of  Hatch  & 
Wickes.  We  practiced  law  together  until  the  spring 
of  1902,  when  the  firm  was  dissolved  and  I  resumed 
private  practice,  which  I  continued  until  1906. 

"In  July,  1906,  I  left  New  York,  and,  largely  at 
the  suggestion  of  our  classmate,  Brady,  moved  to 
Juneau,  the  capital  of  Alaska.  Brady  gave  me  many 
letters  of  introduction  to  prominent  citizens  and 
officials,  and  upon  being  admitted  to  the  bar  of  the 
District  of  Alaska,  I  enjoyed  a  good  practice.  But 
the  climate  was  very  trying,  and  in  March  of  the 
following  year  we  all  came  to  Seattle,  and  a  little  later 
to  San  Francisco,  where,  in  June,  1907,  I  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  of  California,  where  I  have  practiced  law 
ever  since. 

"I  have  always  had  a  desire  to  return  to  Alaska, 
and  I  am  now  considering  plans  to  go  up  there  with 
some  clients  and  friends,  who  are  interested  in  very 
rich  gold,  copper  and  coal  claims  in  Southwestern 
Alaska. 

"Since  leaving  New  York  I  have  not  seen  any  of 
our  classmates  except  Beaver.  I  have  met  him  on 
several  occasions  and  have  been  most  agreeably  and 
hospitably  entertained  by  him  at  his  home  in  Campbell, 
Santa  Clara  County,  Calif. 

"My  writings  have  consisted  almost  entirely  of  legal 
briefs,  which  are  on  file  in  various  state  and  federal 
courts,  in  cases  with  which  I  have  been  connected  as 
attorney  or  counsel. 

"I  am  still  very  much  interested  in  music,  which  is 
my  favorite  recreation  and  occupation  outside  of  my 


236  BIOGRAPHIES 

profession,  although  I  have  not  recently  been  able  to 
devote  any  considerable  time  to  singing.  After  leaving 
college  I  became  a  member  of  the  solo  quartet  at 
Trinity  Church  in  New  York  City,  where  I  sang  until 
May,  1875.  Then  I  sang  in  the  solo  quartet  of  St. 
Thomas'  Church  in  New  York  for  two  years.  I  found, 
however,  that  my  choir  engagements  interfered  so 
with  my  law  work  that  I  had  to  give  up  regular 
singing;  and  since  1877  I  have  sung  in  public  on 
occasion  only." 

Ansley  Wilcox 

Lawyer 

Residence — 641   Delaware  Avenue,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Business  address — 684  Ellicott  Square,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Born  January  27,  1856,  in  Augusta,  Ga.,  son  of  Daniel  Hand 
and  Frances  Louisa  (Ansley)  Wilcox.  His  first  American 
ancestor  was  John  Willcocks,  a  native  of  England,  who  was  one 
of  the   original  settlers   of   Hartford,   Conn.,   in    1636. 

He  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Haven, 
Conn. 

He  was  married  January  17,  1878,  to  Miss  Cornelia  Rumsey  of 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.  (died  in  Buffalo,  December  22,  1880),  a  daughter 
of  Dexter  Phelps  Rumsey  and  Mary  Coburn  Rumsey.  They  had 
one  daughter: 

Cornelia  Rumsey,  born  in  Buffalo,  in  November,  1880,  now  Mrs. 
Henry  Adsit  Bull. 

He  was  married  a  second  time  on  November  20,  1883,  in 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  to  Miss  Grace  Rumsey  (sister  of  the  first  Mrs. 
Wilcox).     They  have  one   daughter: 

Frances,  born  in  Buffalo,  in  November,  1884,  now  Mrs.  Thomas 
Fowke  Cooke. 

After  graduation  Wilcox  traveled  for  a  year,  and 
then  studied  for  a  year  at  Oxford,  England.     In  1876 


GRADUATES 


237 


ANSLEY    WILCOX 


he  settled  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  where  he  has  since  lived. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1878. 

He  was  connected  with  the  firms  of  Crowley,  Movius 
&  Wilcox,  1882-1883;  Allen,  Movius  &  Wilcox,  1883- 
1892;  and  Movius  &  Wilcox,  1892-1893.  From  1894 
to  1903  he  was  head  of  the  firm  of  Wilcox  &  Miner, 
and  since  the  latter  date,  of  Wilcox  &  Bull.  As 
counsel  he  assisted  in  the  entrance  of  the  West  Shore 
railroad  into  Buffalo  in  1882.  He  was  counsel  for  the 
commission  appointed  by  Governor  Cleveland  to 
acquire  the  land  for  the  New  York  State  Reservation 
at  Niagara  Falls,  1883-1885.  In  the  case  of  Rogers 
versus  the  City  of  Buffalo,  he  succeeded  in  establishing 
the  constitutionality  of  the  Civil  Service  Law  of  the 
state.      In    1891,    he    carried    to    the    United    States 


238  BIOGRAPHIES 

supreme  court  the  Briggs-Spaulding  contest,  involving 
the  liability  of  the  directors  of  national  banks  for 
neglecting  attention  to  their  official  duties,  and  he  has 
been  engaged  in  many  other  important  cases. 

He  was  the  head  of  the  movement  for  jury  reform 
which  led  to  the  adoption  of  the  New  York  Jury  Law 
of  1895.  In  1899  he  was  a  member  of  the  board  of 
managers  of  the  State  Reformatory  at  Elmira.  He 
was  one  of  the  first  and  most  active  members  of  the 
Buffalo  Charity  Organization  Society,  founded  in 
1877,  the  pioneer  society  of  the  United  States  in  this 
field,  and  is  now  its  president.  He  held  the  chair  of 
medical  jurisprudence  at  the  University  of  Buffalo  for 
twenty-one  jrears;  and  has  been  for  years  a  trustee  of 
the  Buffalo  General  Hospital.  For  thirty  years  he 
has  been  connected  with  the  Buffalo  Civil  Service 
Reform  Association,  serving  as  its  president  since  1900; 
and  is  an  officer  of  the  National  Civil  Service  Reform 
League. 

He  has  always  taken  an  interest  and  an  active  part 
in  matters  affecting  city  government  in  Buffalo,  and 
municipal  reform  movements  in  general.  He  has  been 
engaged  in  all  movements  for  ballot  reform  and 
electoral  reform,  and  is  at  present  an  officer  of  the 
State  Ballot  Reform  Association,  and  chairman  of  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  local  Election  Laws 
Enforcement  Association. 

For  many  years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the 
American  Bar  Association  and  has  served  on  several 
of  its  committees,  including  that  on  copyright  law, 
which  took  a  leading  part  in  the  recent  revision  of  the 
national  law  on  this  subject.  He  is  now  vice-president 
of  the  Association  for  New  York.     For  years  he  has 


GRADUATES 


239 


RODERIC    WILLIAMS 


been  active  in  the  New  York  State  Bar  Association, 
and  has  served  on  many  of  its  committees,  including 
its  executive  committee.  His  favorite  recreations  are 
horseback  riding  and  golf. 

He  has  long  been  a  personal  friend  of  ex-President 
Roosevelt,  and  it  was  at  his  house  while  his  guest,  that 
the  latter  took  the  oath  of  office  after  President 
McKinley's  death  in  September,  1901. 

*Roderic  Williams 

Died  1911 


Born  August  13,  1852,  in  Minersville,  Pa.,  the  son  of  Roderick 
R.  and  Mary  Ann  Williams. 

He  prepared  at  the  Woodward  High  School,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
He  was  unmarried. 


240  BIOGRAPHIES 

In  1911  Williams  wrote: 

"From  1874  to  1876  I  conducted  a  private  school  in 
Helena,  Ark.  From  1876  to  1882  was  interested  in 
mercantile  pursuits  in  Cincinnati.  Up  to  the  year 
1893  I  was  connected  with  the  state  agency  of  the 
Travelers  Insurance  Company  in  the  capacity  of 
corresponding  clerk  and  adjuster  of  claims.  From 
that  date  to  the  present  time  I  have  been  a  solicitor  of 
life  insurance  and  a  promoter  of  real  estate. 

"Since  1882  I  have  been  a  resident  of  Denver.  The 
classmates  whom  I  have  seen  most  frequently  are 
Henry  Bristol,  Henry  Bobbins,  in  Chicago,  and  while 
in  the  East  on  a  trip  in  1906  I  saw  John  Brady, 
Wallace  Harrison  and  Chauncey  Starkweather.  While 
in  New  Haven  I  met  our  late  Secretary,  George 
Dickerman,  George  Gunn  and  Edward  Morris.  Dur- 
ing his  brief  residence  here  I  frequently  saw  the  late 
Frank  Olmsted." 

Williams  died  Xovember  3,  1911,  in  Denver,  Colo. 


k     *Jared  Willson 

Died   1889 

Born  January  19,  1850,  in  Canandaigua,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of 
Jared  and  Mary  A.  Willson. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hartford  (Conn.)  Public  High 
School. 

He  was  married  May  4>,  1881,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  to  Miss 
Mary  Russell.     They  had  two  children: 

Rosalie   Stone,  born  in  Brooklyn,   N.   Y.,   June   19,   1882. 

Ernest  Russell,  Yale  '06  S.,  born  in  San  Antonio,  Texas, 
January  21,   1885. 


GRADUATES 


241 


Upon  graduation  Willson  began  the  study  of  medi- 
cine at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  New 
York  City,  from  which  institution  he  received  the 
degree  of  M.D.  in  1877. 
He  had  already  been  ap- 
pointed assistant  surgeon 
on  the  staff  of  the  Kings 
County  Hospital,  at  Flat- 
bush,  L.  I.,  and  for  more 
than  a  year  occupied  this 
position.  On  leaving  the 
hospital  he  began  the  gen- 
eral practice  of  medicine 
in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  de- 
voting himself  at  a  later 
date  to  his  specialty — the 
treatment  of  the  ear  and 
eye.  In  the  autumn  of 
1883  declining  health 
compelled  him  to  leave 
Brooklyn,   and  in  the 

hope  that  a  change  of  scene  and  climate  might  benefit 
him  he  settled  in  San  Antonio,  Texas,  and  there  con- 
tinued his  medical  practice.  The  hopes  of  improvement 
proved  delusive,  and  after  two  years  and  a  half  he 
returned  to  the  North,  making  his  home  in  Meriden, 
Conn.  In  June,  1887,  his  health  had  failed  to  such  an 
extent  that  he  was  obliged  to  relinquish  entirely  the 
practice  of  his  profession.  He  died  in  Middletown, 
Conn.,  February  11,  1889,  at  the  age  of  thirty-nine. 


JARED    WILLSON 


242  BIOGRAPHIES 

Frank  Spencer  Witherbee 

Connected  with  the  Corporation  of  Witherbee,  Sherman  &  Company 

Residence — Port  Henry,   N.   Y.,  and  4   Fifth  Avenue,  New  York 

City 

Business  address — 2  Rector  Street,   New  York  City 

Born  May  12,  1852,  in  Port  Henry,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Jonathan 
G.  and  Charlotte   (Spencer)   Witherbee. 

He  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Haven, 
Conn. 

He  was  married  April  25,  1883,  in  New  York  City,  to  Miss 
Mary  Rhinelander  Stewart,  daughter  of  Lispenard  Stewart  of 
New   York  City.     They  have   had  three   children: 

A   daughter,   who   died   at   birth   in    1884. 

Lispenard  Stewart,  Yale  '07,  born  in  New  York  City,  June  1, 
1886,  died  in  New  York  City,  February  8,   1907. 

Evelyn  Spencer,  born  in  Port  Henry,   N.  Y.,  July   8,   1889. 

Witherbee  writes: 

"On  the  death  of  my  father  in  1875,  I  succeeded  him 
in  the  copartnership  of  Witherbee,  Sherman  &  Com- 
pany, whose  business  was  the  mining  of  iron  ore  and 
the  manufacture  of  pig  iron  in  the  vicinity  of  Port 
Henry.  The  business  of  this  company  was  started  in 
1849  by  nry  uncle,  Silas  H.  Witherbee,  and  by  my 
father,  Jonathan  G.  Witherbee,  and  these  two  interests 
have  remained  intact,  some  of  the  third  generation  now 
being  active  in  its  management.  In  1900  the  copart- 
nership was  incorporated  under  the  same  title  and  I 
was  elected  its  first  president.  Our  business  has  grown 
from  a  production  of  a  few  thousand  tons  annually  up 
to  an  estimated  production  for  this  year  of  about  one 
million  tons,  and  the  total  output  of  our  mines  to  date^ 
if  loaded  on  cars,  would  make  a  freight  train  extending 
from  New  York  to  about  Denver,  Colo. 


GRADUATES 


243 


FRANK    SPENCER    WITHERBEE 


"We  are  the  largest  producers  of  separated  iron  ore 
in  the  world.  Our  separating  process  consists  of  crush- 
ing the  crude  ore  down  to  its  particles  or  grains  of  iron 
and  gangue.  The  reduced  material  is  conveyed  by  a 
belt  underneath  a  series  of  magnets,  by  which  the 
particles  of  iron  are  lifted  by  attraction  to  another  belt 
and  conveyed  to  a  bin  or  cars,  while  the  gangue 
unattracted  by  the  magnets  is  belted  to  the  dump  pile; 
so  that  only  the  pure  ore,  or  so  to  speak,  the  cream,  is 
shipped  away.  Fortunately  for  us  only  magnetic  iron 
ores  like  ours  can  thus  be  treated,  so  our  ores  are 
sought  after  for  mixture  with  other  ores. 

"Since  graduation,  so  far  as  I  can  remember,  I  have 
been  identified  in  the  past  with  the  following  companies : 
as  vice-president  of  the  Cedar  Point  Iron  Company ; 


244  BIOGRAPHIES 

Port  Henry  Furnace  Company;  First  National  Bank 
of  Port  Henry ;  Tennessee  Coal,  Iron  &  Railroad  Com- 
pany; as  director  of  the  Port  Henry  Towing  Com- 
pany; Port  Henry  Ferry  Company;  Port  Henry 
Gas  Light  Company;  Addison  County  Railroad;  and 
president  of  the  Troy  Steel  Company.  I  am  now 
identified  with  the  following  companies:  as  presi- 
dent of  Witherbee,  Sherman  &  Company;  and  as 
president  of  the  Lake  Champlain  &  Moriah  Railroad 
Company;  as  director  in  the  following  companies: 
Cheever  Iron  Ore  Company;  Citizen's  National 
Bank,  Port  Henry,  N.  Y. ;  Central  Hudson  Steamboat 
Company;  Equitable  Life  Assurance  Society;  Fulton 
Trust  Company  of  New  York;  Cubitas  Iron  Ore 
Company  of  Cuba,  the  Chatham  and  Phenix  National 
Bank  of  New  York  City. 

"For  many  years  I  took  an  active  interest  in  politics, 
having  served  on  the  Republican  National  Committee 
representing  the  State  of  New  York  and  I  was  several 
times  elected  a  member  of  the  Republican  State  Com- 
mittee. I  have  frequently  attended  the  National  and 
State  conventions  of  my  party  and  have  known,  during 
the  past  thirty  years,  nearly  all  of  the  very  prominent 
men  of  that  period.  I  have  frequently  been  solicited 
to  take  office,  but  I  have  always  felt  I  could  not  spare 
the  time  from  my  business  interests  and  have  also  felt 
I  could  have  more  influence  if  I  was  not  seeking  any 
personal  advancement.  Have  had  considerable  to  do 
with  the  different  tariff  bills,  frequently  going  'to 
Washington  to  appear  before  different  Congressional 
Committees,  and  with  State  legislation.  I  have 
taken  a  great  deal  of  interest  in  the  different  primary 
laws   and   took  quite   an  active  part  in  the   creation 


GRADUATES  245 


of  the  State  Adirondack  Park.  I  served  on  a  com- 
mittee appointed  by  Governor  Roosevelt  to  formulate 
our  present  barge  canal  system  now  under  construc- 
tion and  was  sent  abroad  to  report  on  the  canal 
systems  of  Europe.  I  was  appointed  by  Governor 
Hughes,  a  member  of  the  first  Champlain  Tercentenary 
Celebration  Commission. 

"I  have  been  a  member  of  the  State  Committee  of 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  a  manager  of  the  House  of  Refuge, 
a  reformatory  for  boys,  a  manager  of  the  Orthopedic 
Hospital,  and  I  am  deeply  interested  in  the  work  of 
the  Witherbee  Memorial  Association,  an  organization 
of  the  Witherbee  family  conducting  a  workingmen's 
club  house  at  our  mines.  In  the  building  we  maintain 
a  hospital,  reading  room,  billiard  tables,  baths,  and  my 
wife  runs  a  cooking  school  for  the  girls.  There  is  also 
a  large  hall  for  meetings  and  entertainments  and 
twice  a  month  a  free  concert  and  dance  is  given  by  a 
band  composed  of  our  own  employees. 

"I  am  a  member  of  the  National  Historical 
Association,  National  Geographic  Society,  Academy 
of  Political  and  Social  Science,  American  Institute  of 
Mining  Engineers,  the  Lake  Superior  Institute  of 
Mining  Engineers,  and  some  other  technical  societies. 

"I  am  also  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution 
and  of  the  following  social  clubs  of  New  York: 
the  Union,  Metropolitan,  University,  Republican, 
Strollers,  and  the  Tuxedo,  and  of  the  Travelers'  Club 
of  Paris. 

"Have  visited  nearly  every  State  in  the  Union  and 
have  also  been  as  far  West  as  British  Columbia  and 
have  been  to  Nassau  and  Cuba.  I  have  rarely  been 
anywhere  in  the  country  without  coming  across  a  Yale 


246  BIOGRAPHIES 

man  and  I  have  had  many  pleasant  reunions  with  '74 
men.  I  have  made  frequent  trips  to  Europe,  includ- 
ing visits  to  Algeria,  Egypt,  the  Holy  Land,  Greece, 
and  Turkey.  In  1906,  I  visited  some  iron  mines  in 
Lapland,  located  within  the  Arctic  Circle  and  over  a 
thousand  miles  north  of  Stockholm. 

"My  domestic  life,  considering  the  frequent  tempests 
on  the  matrimonial  sea,  has  been  a  very  happy  one. 
The  only  cloud  which  has  crossed  my  path  has  been 
the  death  of  my  only  son  in  1907,  the  year  he  was  to 
have  graduated  from  Yale.  He  was  then  to  have 
made  a  trip  around  the  world  and  I  was  hoping  on 
his  return  to  have  dropped  on  to  his  shoulders  some  of 
my  business  cares  and  responsibilities,  and  then  to  have 
taken  life  easier  myself.  Life  since  has  never  been  the 
same  to  me  and  I  little  realized  before  how  much  I  was 
living  and  planning  for  his  future." 


John  Seymour  Wood 

Lawyer  and  Writer 

Residence — 131   East  Nineteenth  Street,  New  York  City 

Business   address — 20   Broad   Street,   New   York   City 

Born  October  1,  1853,  in  Utica,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  George  W. 
and  Harriet    (Clarke)   Wood. 

He  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  also 
Wyer's  Academy,  Westchester,  Pa.,  and  under  Dr.  Benjamin 
Dwight  at  Clinton,  N.  Y. 

He  was  married  September  15,  1880,  in  Brattleboro,  Vt.,  to 
Miss  Mary  Buell  Harris,  Farmington  '74,  daughter  of  Broughton 
D.  Harris,  a  former  railway  builder,  and  resident  of  Brattleboro, 
Vt.     They  have  no  children. 


GRADUATES 


247 


JOHN     SEYMOUR    WOOD 


Wood  writes: 

"My  history  has  been  uneventful,  having  resided  in 
simple  and  harmless  flats  in  New  York  City  since 
1874,  and  practiced  the  law.  I  traveled  in  Europe  in 
1888,  and  since  then  have  written  several  books  and 
short  stories.  I  practiced  law  in  copartnership  with 
dear  old,  overworked  Stapler,  '74,  from  1878  to  1889 
or  1890,  and  alone,  since.  Received  the  degree  of 
LL.B.  at  Columbia  in  1876. 

"In  politics  I  am  independent.  I  voted  for  Cleve- 
land, for  Roosevelt  and  for  Taft,  and  hope  to  vote  for 
Taft  in  1912. 

"In  regard  to  sports,  I  took  up  tennis  from  1881 
to  1890,  bicycling  from  1890  to  1900,  golf  since  1897. 
I  ran  a  small  steam  locomobile  in  1900,  and  have  had 


248  BIOGRAPHIES 

some  kind  of  auto  every  year  since.  My  wife  and  I 
enjoy  auto  tours  in  the  summer.  I  play  golf  a  great 
deal;  I  won  the  'Harris  prize'  cup  in  1909,  at  Class 
reunion,  second  best  gross  score.  I  might  add  that  I 
have  not  yet  seen  the  said  'Harris'  cup,  in  esse!  Hinc 
Mae  lachrymae. 

"Am  not  connected  with  any  corporation  except  my 
own  increasing  one.  I  was  assistant  counsel  for  the 
Elevated  Road  from  1890  to  1894.  I  was  editor  of 
the  Bachelor  of  Arts  Magazine  from  1895  to  1898,  a 
very  pleasant  experience. 

"I  am  a  member  of  the  University,  Authors,  Yale, 
Columbia,  Manhattan  Chess  and  Dyker  Meadow  Golf 
clubs,  all  of  New  York  City,  and  the  Apawamis  Golf 
Club  of  Rye,  N.  Y.  My  philosophy  of  life  is  to  try 
to  be  as  little  unhappy  as  possible  though  poor  in  this 
world's  goods,  and  not  setting  the  world  on  fire.  I 
take  in  the  simple  pleasures  of  opera,  concerts,  theatres, 
books,  golf,  autoing  and  reading  the  Sunday  papers, 
(which  latter  I  admit  is  a  bad  habit). 

"My  writing  has  always  been  a  pleasure  and  not 
a  source  of  income.  Latterly  Mrs.  Wood  has  taken  up 
the  pen,  having  stories  in  Century,  Colliers,  Bookman, 
and  other  serial  magazines  and  a  recent  book  called 
'Just  Boys.'  We  grow  proud  of  old  Yale's  glories 
and  victories,  realizing  that  she  now  assuredly  leads 
Harvard  in  all  except  mere  numbers." 

He  adds  that  at  fifty-seven  years  of  age,  gout 
has  begun  to  trouble  him  a  little  and  to  ward  it 
off,  under  excellent  advice  of  Dr.  G.  E.  Munroe,  he 
takes  phosphate  of  soda  in  hot  water  every  morning. 
That  as  he  grows  older  he  believes  in  eating  little,  and 
cutting  out  all  alcohol  except  two  or  three  times  a 


GRADUATES  249 


day,  and  at  dinner.  That  as  long  as  he  plays  golf  he 
feels  well,  and  takes  life  easily.  But  when  the  golfing 
season  stops  he  feels  the  loss  of  out-door  exercise,  and 
the  world  grows  yellow  and  sere.  He  advises  every 
member  of  '74  to  start  in  and  play  golf.  This  applies 
even  to  Colonel  Doonie  Harris,  and  Owen  Aldis. 

As  a  member  of  the  Authors  Club,  Carnegie  Hall, 
Wood  invites  stray  members  of  '74  any  Thursday 
night  in  the  winter  months  to  drop  in  and  have 
supper  with  him. 

Bibliography 

"Daughter  of  Venice";  "Gramercy  Park,"  book,  pub.  Appleton, 
1894;  "Yale  Yarns,"  book,  pub.  Putnams,  1898;  "College  Days 
at  Yale,"  book,  pub.  Outing  Co.;  "Coign  of  Vantage,"  book, 
pub.  Dodd,  Mead  Co.;  besides  a  number  of  stories  in  Scribner's, 
Century,  Outing,  etc. 


Edmund  Zacher 

Lawyer 

Residence — Branford,  Conn. 

Business  address — 219  Exchange  Building,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Born  December  12,  1853,  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Louis 
and  Mary  Barbara  Zacher. 

He  prepared  at  the   Hartford    (Conn.)    High   School. 

He  was  married  May  18,  1881,  in  Meriden,  Conn.,  to  Miss 
Julia  Anna  Meeker  Griswold,  daughter  of  Joel  W.  Griswold 
(deceased),  formerly  a  merchant.  They  have  had  three  children, 
all  born  in  Branford,  Conn.: 

Madolin  Russ,  Vassar  '05,  born  February  2,  1884. 

Natalie  Barbara,  born  April  23,  1887;  married  Norman  Daggett 
Brainard,  '06  S.,  August  24,   1907. 

Louis  Bradstreet,  Yale  '10,  born  January  8,   1889. 


250 


BIOGRAPHIES 


Zacher  writes: 

"After  graduation,  I  became  principal  of  the  High 
School  in  Branford,  Conn.,  and  remained  there  two 
years.  Returned  to  New  Haven  in  September,  1876, 
entering  the  Yale  Law  School  and  the  law  office  of  the 
Hon.  Lynde  Harrison.  Soon  after  the  fall  term 
opened,  I  received  an  appointment  as  tutor  and  held 
the  position  for  five  years,  instructing,  in  German,  the 
classes  of  1878,  1879,  1880,  1881,  1882.  Was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  New  Haven  in  December,  1877,  and 
received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  Yale  in  June,  1878. 
I  began  the  practice  of  the  law  in  1878  in  New  Haven, 
and  have  continued  to  practice  there  ever  since.  Was 
associated  with  Lynde  Harrison  at  the  beginning  of 
my  practice  and  not  long  afterwards  formed  a  partner- 


EDMUND    ZACHER 


GRADUATES  251 

ship  with  him  under  the  firm  name  of  Harrison  & 
Zacher,  that  continued  until  Mr.  Harrison's  death  on 
June  6, 1906.  I  then  formed  a  partnership  with  W.  H. 
Ely,  Amherst  '77,  and  his  son,  William  Brewster  Ely, 
Yale  '04,  on  July  1,  1907,  under  the  name  of  Ely, 
Zacher  &  Ely.  This  firm  was  dissolved  by  the  death 
of  Mr.  W.  H.  Ely,  May  26,  1909,  and  since  that  date 
the  two  surviving  partners  have  continued  the  practice 
of  the  law  under  the  firm  name  of  Zacher  &  Ely. 

"After  my  marriage  in  May,  1881,  I  went  to  live 
in  Branford,  Conn.,  and  have  resided  there  continuously 
with  the  exception  of  the  winter  of  1881  to  1882,  which 
I  passed  in  New  Haven. 

"Was  executive  secretary  of  the  State  of  Connecticut 
from  1883  to  1885,  appointed  by  and  acting  under 
Governor  Thomas  M.  Waller.  Was  named  as  one  of 
the  incorporators  of  the  James  Blackstone  Memorial 
Library  Association  of  Branford,  Conn.,  in  the  act  of 
incorporation,  approved  March  23,  1893,  and  since 
that  time  I  have  been  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees 
and  for  a  portion  of  the  time  have  held  the  position 
of  secretary  of  the  board.  Was  appointed  judge  of 
the  town  court  of  Branford  in  1897  and  served  three 
terms. 

"Am  a  member  of  the  Graduates  and  the  Country 
clubs  of  New  Haven." 


BIOGRAPHIES  OF  NON-GRADUATES 


Edward  Williamson  Andrews 

Banker 
Residence — 1206  University  Street,  Seattle,  Wash. 

Born  January  15,  1853,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  the  son  of  James 
Andrews. 

He  prepared  at  the  Bliss  Classical  School,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

He  was  married  January  25,  1893,  in  San  Francisco,  Calif., 
to  Miss  Sarah  L.  Orth,  daughter  of  Joseph  Orth,  of  Steubenville, 
Ohio.     They  have  had  two  children: 

Edward  Williamson,  Jr. 

Mary  DeHarte. 

Andrews  writes: 

"Lived  in  Cincinnati  until  January,  1892,  when  I 
came  to  Seattle  as  president  of  the  Seattle  National 
Bank.  Before  coming  to  Seattle  I  was  connected 
with  the  Lafayette  National  Bank  of  Cincinnati.  I 
am  also  president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Bremerton,  Wash.,  and  am  a  director  of  eight  or  ten 
corporations. 

"Prior  to  1909  I  was  president  of  the  University 
Club  of  Seattle  for  eight  years." 

William  Porter  Beardsley 

Secretary  of  the  Ohio  Tool  Company 
Address — 102  South  Street,  Auburn,  N.  Y. 

Born  August  4,  1852,  the  son  of  Alonzo  G.  and  Anna  Porter 
Beardsley. 

He  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  and  left 
college   in   December,    1870,  the   middle  of   Freshman  year. 


NON-GRADUATES 


253 


WILLIAM    PORTER    BEARDSLEY 


He  was  married  June  9,  1875,  in  Unionville,  Conn.,  to  Miss 
Mary  W.  Porter,  a  graduate  of  Miss  Porter's  School,  Farmington, 
Conn.,  daughter  of  the  Honorable  Samuel  Quincy  Porter,  a  paper 
manufacturer  of  Unionville.     They  have  two  children: 

Alice   Taylor,  born   in   Auburn,   N.   Y.,   May   5,    1876. 

Glover,  Yale   '03,  born  in  Auburn,  N.   Y.,  August    19,    1881. 

After  leaving  college  Beardsley  entered  the  employ 
of  the  Oswego  Starch  Factory  in  the  manufacture  of 
starch,  and  remained  actively  with  this  institution  for 
thirty  years,  until  it  was  absorbed  by  the  Corn  Products 
Refining  Company  about  1903.  During  the  earlier 
years  he  was  assistant  secretary  and  treasurer,  and 
later  became  secretary  and  treasurer,  residing  in 
Auburn,  N.  Y.,  where  the  stock  of  the  company  was 
largely  owned  and  its  financial  affairs  carried  on  until 
1901.      The   office   was   then   transferred   to   Oswego, 


254  BIOGRAPHIES 

N.  Y.,  where  he  moved  with  his  family,  residing  there 
nearly  three  years  and  returning  to  Auburn  in  1903. 
In  1874  he  formed  with  others  the  firm  of  Beardsley, 
Wheeler  &  Company,  to  manufacture  mowers  and 
reapers,  and  took  the  active  management  of  the  busi- 
ness, which  was  successfully  carried  on  for  about  ten 
years.  Since  1893  he  has  also  been  connected  with 
the  Ohio  Tool  Company  of  Columbus,  Ohio,  and 
Auburn,  N,  Y.,  as  director  and  secretary. 

In  1903  he  was  elected  a  governor  and  treasurer  of 
the  Owasco  Country  Club,  and  the  following  year  chair- 
man of  the  house  committee,  which  positions  he  still 
holds,  and  has  been  intensely  interested  in  the  develop- 
ment of  the  club  and  given  a  great  deal  of  time  to  its 
management.  He  is  a  member  of  the  City  Club  of 
Auburn,  a  social  organization,  and  was  a  governor  and 
its  first  treasurer.  In  1907  he  was  elected  a  trustee 
of  the  Fort  Hill  Cemetery  Association  of  Auburn,  and 
its  secretary  and  treasurer,  and  in  the  same  year  a 
vestryman  of  St.  Peter's  Church  and  clerk  of  the 
parish. 

Samuel  Shepard  Dennis 

Banker  and  Railroad  Director 

Residence — Miller  Road,  Morristown,  N.  J. 

Business  address — 766  and  768  Broad  Street,  Newark,  N.  J. 

Permanent  address — Care  Howard  Savings   Institution, 
Newark,  N.  J. 

Born  September  11,  1852,  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  the  son  of  Alfred 
L.  and  Eliza  Shepard  Dennis. 

He  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  and  left 
college   in   Sophomore   year,   because   of   impaired   health. 


NON-GRADUATES  255 

He  was  married  April  15,  1884,  in  New  York  City,  to  Miss 
Eliza  Thomas,  daughter  of  Richard  S.  Thomas,  a  lawyer  of 
Chicago,   111.     They  have  three  children: 

Helen   Eliza,   born   in   Morristown,   N.   J.,   June   27,    1885. 

James   Shepard,  2d,  born  in  Orange,  N.   J.,  October  26,   1887. 

Dorothy,  born  in  Orange,  N.  J.,  September  8,   1891. 

Since  leaving  college  Dennis  has  lived  in  Morristown, 
N.  J.;  Orange,  N.J. ;  Buxton,  Derbyshire,  England; 
Lakewood,  N.  J. ;  and  New  York  City.  Immediately 
after  leaving  college  he  traveled  extensively  in  Europe, 
visiting  also  Asia  and  Africa,  and  on  his  return  to  this 
country  with  restored  health,  he  entered  the  hardware 
firm  of  Gifford  &  Beach,  Park  Place,  New  York  City, 
who  were  at  that  time  engaged  in  an  extensive  business. 
After  a  few  successful  years  in  this  connection  he 
retired,  in  order  to  give  time  and  attention  to  aiding 
his  father  in  the  many  details  of  important  business 
operations,  and  was  thus  occupied  for  a  period  of  about 
twelve  years. 

Since  his  father's  death  much  of  his  time  has  been 
given  to  the  cares  and  responsibilities  incidental  to  the 
management  of  the  estate  of  the  latter,  who  had  large 
railroad  interests.  In  the  meantime  other  important 
interests  of  a  personal  character  claimed  his  attention, 
and  his  services  have  been  sought  by  large  financial 
institutions  and  by  railroad  corporations,  in  all  of 
which  he  has  taken  an  active  and  responsible  part.  He 
was  elected  a  director  of  the  United  Railroads  of  New 
Jersey  and  has  been  made  a  member  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  board,  and  is  now  its  vice-president. 
He  is  also  on  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Pittsburgh, 
Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railway  Company,  of 
the  Pennsylvania  system,  and  of  the  Naugatuck  Rail- 


256 


BIOGRAPHIES 


road,  identified  with  the  New  York,  New  Haven  & 
Hartford  system,  and  of  the  Chicago  Junction 
Railways,  and  Union  Stock  Yards  Company. 

Dennis  has  been  for 
several  years  one  of  the 
managers  and  the  first 
vice-president  of  the 
Howard  Savings  Insti- 
tution of  Newark,  N.  J., 
and  was  recently  elected 
to  the  presidency.  He 
is  at  present  the  senior 
in  service  on  the  board 
of  directors  of  the 
National  Newark  Bank- 
ing Company,  founded 
in  1804,  the  oldest  bank 
in  the  state,  with  which 
father  and  son  have 
been  connected  for  over 
forty  years.  He  is  also 
a  director  of  the  American  Insurance  Company  of 
Newark,  and  the  Morristown  Trust  Company  of 
Morristown,  N.  J.,  where  he  lives,  and  one  of  the 
trustees  of  the  Syrian  Protestant  College  of  Beirut, 
Syria,  the  most  prominent  and  progressive  educational 
institution  of  Western  Asia.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
advisory  board  of  the  Newark  Exchange  for  Women's 
Work,  and  the  Female  Charitable  Society  of  Newark. 
He  has  a  membership  in  the  Washington  Association 
at  Morristown;  the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society; 
the  New  York  Chamber  of  Commerce;  the  Society  of 
the  Cincinnati ;  the  Morristown  Golf  Club ;  the  Dennis 


SAMUEL    SHEPARD    DENNIS 


NON-GRADUATES  257 

Library  of  Newton,  N.  J. ;  the  Essex  Club  of  Newark, 
and  the  Century,  Union,  and  Down  Town  clubs  of 
New  York  City. 

Dennis  has  spent  about  six  or  eight  years  of  his  life 
in  traveling  all  over  the  world,  alone  and  with  his 
family.  His  favorite  recreations  are  lawn  tennis, 
horseback  riding,  and  collecting  valuable  manuscripts 
and  autograph  letters,  of  which  he  has  a  very  choice 
collection. 


Charles  Joseph  Harris 

Manufacturer 
Address — Dillsboro,  N.  C. 

Born  September  11,  1853,  in  Putnam,  Conn.,  the  son  of  William 
Harris,  a  farmer,  and  Zilpah  (Torrey)  Harris.  Three  brothers 
attended  Yale:  William  Torrey  Harris,  '58;  Edward  M.  Harris, 
M.D.,  ex-'68  M. ;    and  David  H.  Harris,  ex-"7Q  M. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  the  Providence  (R.  I.)  High  School. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Florence  M.  Rust.  Two  sons  attended 
Yale: 

David  Rust,  ex- '05,  born  October  21,  1882,  in  Denver,  Colo. 

Robert  Ward,  ex-'OS,  born  September  27,  1886,  in  Denver, 
Colo. 

Harris  writes: 

"Graduated  from  the  St.  Louis  Law  School  in  1876. 
Never  practiced  much,  found  it  too  slow.  Lived  in 
Colorado  mostly  from  1876  to  1889.  Member  of  the 
Colorado  legislature  in  1886.  Largely  interested  in 
lands  and  irrigation  near  Denver. 

"Removed  to  Dillsboro,  N.  C,  in  1889  and  estab- 
lished the  Harris  Kaolin  Company,  which  has  been  the 


258 


BIOGRAPHIES 


largest  producer  of  standard  china  clay  in  the  United 
States,  having  mines  in  five  different  countries.  Built 
the  C.  J.  Harris  Tannery  in  1902,  a  strong  and  flourish- 
ing institution.  The  Harris  Woodbury  Lumber  Com- 
pany owns  50,000  acres  of  the  best  virgin  timber  lands 
in  Western  North  Carolina.  The  Harris  Granite 
Quarries  Company  is  in  Salisbury,  N.  C.  Am  presi- 
dent of  the  Jackson  County  Bank  and  director  in  many 
banks  and  insurance  companies.  Am  glad  to  say  have 
the  reputation  of  having  done  much  to  develop  the 
industries  of  North  Carolina.  I  was  appointed  by 
President  McKinley  a  member  of  the  United  States 
Industrial  Commission  in  1898  and  served  about  four 
years.  Republican  candidate  for  governor  in  1904; 
delegate   to    National    Republican    Conventions    since 


CHARLES    JOSEPH    HARRIS 


XOX-GRADUATES  259 

1892.  Member  of  the  Ashville  Club,  University  Club 
of  Xew  York  City  and  Metropolitan  Club  of  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  Have  worked  hard,  played  hard  and 
am  ready  to  rest." 


Thomas  Rochester  Shepard 

Lawyer 
Address — Valdez,  Alaska 

Born  July  81,  1852,  in  Dansville,  N.  Y.,  the  son  of  Charles 
and  Katherine   (Rochester)    Shepard. 

He  prepared  at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass. 

He  was  married  October  14,  1879,  in  Dansville,  N.  Y.,  to  Miss 
Caroline  Elizabeth  MacCartney  (died  December  9,  1893), 
daughter  of  Hugh  MacCartney,  a  farmer,  formerly  of  Dansville, 
N.  Y.    (died   1906).     They  had  one  son: 

Arthur  MacCartney,  Yale  '09,  born  in  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  July 
18,   1886. 

He  was  married  a  second  time,  September  28,  1898,  to  Miss 
Agnes  Wildes  Bowen,  daughter  of  Franklin  H.  Bowen,  a  banker, 
formerly  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  died  in  1890  in  Tacoma,  Wash., 
where  the  family  then  resided.  They  have  had  four  children,  all 
born  in  Seattle,  W7ash.: 

Thomas   Rochester,  Jr.,  born  August  8,   1899,  died  May,   1901. 

Charles,  born   November   9,    1900. 

Franklin  Bowen,  born  November  2,   1902,  died  October,    1903. 

Wildes   Bowen,   born   August,    1905,  died   December,    1905. 

Shepard  writes: 

"After  leaving  Yale  in  April,  1871,  I  followed  civil 
engineering  (railroad  location  and  construction  work) 
from  August,  1871,  until  Xovember,  1874.  I  then 
studied  law  at  Fond  du  Lac,  Wis.,  in  the  office  of  my 
brother,  Charles  E.  Shepard,  Yale  '70,  and  was  there 
admitted  to  the  bar  on  February  21,  1876,  since  which 


260 


BIOGRAPHIES 


date  I  have  been  continuously  engaged  in  the  practice 
of  the  law,  as  follows:  From  March  1,  1876,  until 
September,  1881,  at  Fond  du  Lac,  Wis.,  in  the  firm 

of  Shepard  &  Shepard; 
from  September,  1881, 
until  April,  1889,  at 
Milwaukee,  Wis.,  in  the 
firms  of  Davis,  Riess  & 
Shepard  and  Shepard  & 
Shepard ;  from  April, 
1889,  until  October, 
1906,  at  Seattle,  Wash., 
individually  until  June 
6,  1889;  in  the  firm  of 
Shepard  &  Lyon,  thence 
until  December  1,  1889; 
in  the  firm  of  Shepard, 
Shepard  &  Lyon,  thence 
until  November  1,  1890; 
in    the    firm    of    Burke, 


THOMAS    ROCHESTER    SHEPARD 


Shepard  &  Woods,  thence 
until  December  31,  1895 ;  in  the  firm  of  Burke,  Shepard 
&  McGilvra,  thence  until  October  1,  1903;  individually, 
thence  until  December  1,  1904;  in  the  firm  of  Shepard 
&  Bailey,  thence  until  October  1,  1906;  at  Nome, 
Alaska,  individually,  from  October  1,  1906,  until 
November  1,  1909;  and  at  Seattle,  Wash.,  from 
November  1,  1909,  until  this  time,  in  the  firm  of 
Shepard  &  Daly,  which  still  exists. 

"I  am  still  a  member  of  the  Washington  State  Bar 
Association,  the  National  Geographic  Society  of 
Washington,  D.  C,  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  (State 
of  Washington  chapter),  the  Arctic  Brotherhood  of 


NON-GRADUATES  261 

Alaska,  the  Arctic  Club  of  Seattle,  and  a  life  member 
of  the  Seattle  Athletic  Club. 

"My  favorite  recreation  is  walking,  next  to  that 
swimming,  next  to  that  a  gentleman's  game  of  poker, 
with  a  small  ante  and  table  stakes.  I  also  enjoy  the 
games  of  solo  and  chess." 

In  reply  to  a  recent  blank,  he  writes  to  the  Secretary: 

"Your  letter  of  December  19,  asking  for  my  personal 
contribution  to  '74's  Class  History,  was  addressed  to 
me  at  Nome,  Alaska,  where  I  was  in  practice,  when 
we  met  at  New  Haven  two  years  ago,  but  I  have  since 
returned  to  my  old  base  of  operations,  Seattle,  as  you 
see.  So  your  letter,  forwarded  from  Nome  by  Uncle 
Sam's  mail-carrying  dog  teams  over  the  ice  for  1100 
miles  and  then  by  sea  for  1500  more,  has  but  just 
reached  my  hand.  Inclosed  is  the  blank  you  sent  me — 
filled  out,  I  fear,  too  much  in  detail  for  so  undistin- 
guished a  person  as  I  am,  but  detail  was  what  the  blank 
cried  out  for. 

"I  am  intensely  desirous  of  attending  next  year's 
Reunion.  If  I'm  not  on  hand,  kindly  remember  me 
to  any  of  the  fellows  who  may  recall  me.  At  all 
events,  I  shall  be  in  New  Haven  again  in  1923,  when 
my  other  boy,  now  ten  years  old,  will  graduate  there, 
and  at  that  time  I  will  have  another  handshake  with 
you." 

In  June,  1911,  the  Class  Secretary  had  the  pleasure 
of  renewing  his  acquaintance  with  Shepard  in  Seattle 
and  of  being  hospitably  entertained  by  him  in  his  house 
on  Lake  Washington.  Shepard  was  then  giving  up 
his  office  in  Seattle  and  starting  again  for  Alaska,  where 
he  resumed  the  practice  of  the  law.      He  holds  the 


262  BIOGRAPHIES 

office  of  United  States  Court  Commissioner  and  lives 
in  Valdez. 

Among  his  writings  are:  (With  Charles  E.  Shepard,  Yale  '70) 
Shepard's  digest  of  Wisconsin  reports.  January,  1884;  Placer 
Mining  Law  in  Alaska.  Yale  Law  Jrl.,  May,  1909;  Sundry 
letters  and  other  contributions  to  newspapers  from  time  to  time; 
"Sundry  editorial  articles  in  the  Seattle  Daily  News,  of  which  I 
was  the  principal  owner  for  about  thirty  months  next  preceding 
its  untimely  demise  in  October,  1907, — since  which  demise  I  am 
'broke' ;  "  "Large  sheaf  of  indifferent  verse,  for  the  most  part 
unpublished." 


STATISTICAL  SUMMARIES 
ROLL  OF  THE  CLASS 


STATISTICAL  SUMMARIES 


For  Graduates  Only 
Marriages  and  Births 

[An  asterisk  indicates  decease  in  this  summary  as  throughout 
this  volume.  Children  whose  sex  is  unreported  are  included  in 
parenthesis  in  the    "boys  column."] 


Name 

Date  of  Marriage 

Children 
Boys       Girls 

Adams 
Aldis 

September,   1892 
December   18,   1878 

*1 

2 

Beaver 

December   14,   1892 

1 

2 

Benton 
Blodgett 

May  29,   1899 
June  6,   1878 

2 
1 

Bowers 

June   1,   1882 

2 

Bradstreet 

December  25,   1875 

1 

1     *1 

Brady 
Bristol 

October  20,   1887 
June  27,   1904 

3 

2 

G.  S.  Brown 

October   11,   1876 

1 

G.  V.  Bushnell 

December  26,   1878 

1 

1     *1 

S.  C.  Bushnell 

October   14,   1880 

1 

1 

Bussing 
Butler 

April  26,   1904 
October  25,   1877 

3 

Campbell 
^Chittenden 

February  8,    1888 
October   11,   1877 

1 
2 

2    *1 

Cline 
*Curtis 

Cuyler 
^Dewing 
*Dickerman 

February  4,   1880 
April  27,   1882 
May  3,   1881 
October   12,   1875 
October   14,   1885 

4 

1 

1 

1 
3 
4 

Dimock 
*Dodge 

Dunning 
*  Evans 

July  5,   1881 
October  9,   1875 
October   11,   1888 
June  6,   1899 

2 

4    *1 

1 

2 
2 

Farnam 

June  6,   1890 

1     *1 

2    *1 

266           STATISTICAL  SUMMARIES 

i 

Children 

Name 

Date  of  Marriage 

Boys 

Girls 

Fell 

1878 

•l 

1 

F.  W.  Foster 

February  2,   1882 

1 

*W.  Foster 

August  4,   1885 

Frissell 

November  8,   1883 

1 

*Grover 

November  30,   1881 

1     *2 

Gunn 

October  25,  1882 

*1 

1 

Halsted 

June  4,   1890 

Harrison 

July  27,   1882 

*1 

3 

Hatch 

August   18,   1883 

Hedges 

June  8,   1880 

Henderson 

October   14,   1886 

Heron 

February  5,   1884 

2 

2 

Holbrook 

October  30,   1884 

2 

2 

Howe 

February   16,   1876 

1 

2 

Ingersoll 

October   10,   1899 

1 

James 

September  21,   1891 

1 

1 

Joy 

(2d.) 

October,   1879 
May   11,   1895 

Kelly 

June  24,   1886 

•1 

Kennedy 

December  31,   1877 

1 

Latimer 

August   15,   1878 

*1 

Leal 

January  30,   1879 

1 

1 

(2d.) 

April  3,   1893 

1 

Leighton 

July  26,   1875 

1 

*2 

1     *2 

Leland 

October  9,   1878 

1 

Lyon 

(2d.) 

September   18,   1878 
July   16,   1907 

2 

*Marsh 

April  24,   1878 

1 

*Mendell 

May   1,   1879 

1 

2 

Minor 

(2d.) 

June   17,   1884 
April  7,   1904 

3 

Morris 

January  2,   1879 

1 

*1 

2 

Munroe 

February  3,   1881 

1 

Nevin 

October   14,   1875 

1 

1 

*01msted 

October   13,   1882 

2 

1 

Piatt 

January  5,   1887 

3 

*1 

1     *1 

Porter 

February   13,   1877 

3 

STATISTICAL  SUMMARIES 

267 

Children 

Name 

Date  of  Marriage 

Boys 

Girls 

Reading 

June   11,   1879 

(2d.) 

June   15,   1898 

1 

Reid 

February   16,    1876 

2 

4 

E.  D.  Robbins 

February   12,   1908 

1 

1 

H.  S.  Robbins 

December   12,   1883 

4 

Rouse 

June   18,   1879 

1 

1 

Sayles 

October  5,   1878 

1     *1 

3    *1 

*Sayre 

February  23,   1881 

1 

2    *1 

Scudder 

May   10,   1877 

2 

Sellers 

April  25,   1878 

1 

(2d.) 

June   18,   1889 

2 

Sherman 

October   19,   1887 

1 

Spaulding 

December  31,   1874 

1 

*Stapler 

November   10,   1880 

3 

1 

Starkweather 

November  8,   1882 

1 

Stearns 

November  26,   1877 

3 

Stimson 

September   1,   1874 

1     *1 

Stokes 

(2d.) 

January  5,   1895 
February   11,   1911 

1 

A.  E.  Stone 

August  25,   1879 

(*1) 

^Swallow 

October   15,   1881 

Swan 

April   17,   1901 

Tenney 

June   15,   1887 

4 

2    *1 

Thacher 

June   1,    1904 

1 

Townsend 

November   15,   1882 

4 

2 

VanHorn 

December  22,   1881 

*1 

Walden 

(2d.) 

December  21,   1882 
June  5,   1911 

Walker 

January   18,   1888 

2    *1 

Wallace 

March  6,   1885 

Washburn 

July  21,   1880 

(•I) 

1 

Waterman 

February   12,   1878 

2 

Wells 

December  22,   1890 

1 

1 

*Whiting 

October   12,   1875 

Whittemore 

December   14,   1876 

*1 

2 

Wickes 

December   19,   1878 

1 

1 

(2d.) 

May  30,   1901 

1 

268 

STATISTICAL  SUMMARIES 

Children 

Name                              Date  of  Marriage 

Boys 

Girls 

Wilcox 

January   17,   1878 

1 

(2d.)      November  20,   1883 

1 

*  Wills  on 

May  4,   1881 

1 

1 

Witherbee 

April  25,   1883 

*1 

1     *1 

Wood 

September   15,   1880 

Zacher 

May   18,   1881 

1 

2 

86*16 

100*15 

(*2) 

Total  sons 

deceased 
Total  daughters 

deceased 
Total  children  sex  unreported 

deceased 


102 


115 


16 


15 


Total  children  born 
Total  children  deceased 


219 


33 


Members  of  the  Class  married 
Members  of  the  Class  unmarried 


96 

28 


Total  graduates 
Living  members  of  Class  unmarried 


124 
14 


STATISTICAL  SUMMARIES  269 

Yale  Sons  of  Members  of  '74 

Following  is   a  list  of  the   sons   of  members   of  the   Class   who 
have   graduated  or   are  attending   Yale   University.     The  year   of 
the  son's  Class  at  Yale  and  the  name  of  the  department  follows 
the  name  of  the  son  in  each  case. 
Hugh  Picken  Brady,  1914 
John  Green  Brady,   Jr.,    1916 
Edward  Dudley  Bradstreet,  1901 
Samuel   Kendall   Bushnell,   1914 
George  Peters   Chittenden,   1901 
Gerald  Chittenden,  1904,  1908  M.A. 
Edward  Ely  Curtis,   1910 
Edward   Jordan   Dimock,    1911 
George   Edward   Dimock,   Jr.,   1912 
Marshall  Jewell   Dodge,   1898 
Murray  Witherbee  Dodge,   1899 
Arthur  Douglas   Dodge,   1903 
Geoffrey  Dodge,   1909 
Sydney  Dodd  Frissell,   1908 
John  Brown  Heron,  Jr.,  1910 
Walter   Sprankle   Heron,    1914  S. 
Edmund  Grant  Howe,  1906 
Chauncey  Clark  Kennedy,   1904 

Clarence  Whittlesey  Mendell,  1904,  1905  M.A.,  1910  Ph.D. 
William  Thomas   Minor,   1905  L. 
Alexander  Holley  Olmsted,   1904 
George  Harold  Reid,   1901  S. 
Thomas   Pattison  Reid,   1911 
Henry  Bascom  Stapler,    1908 
James  Mulford  Townsend,  Jr.,   1908 
John  Campbell  Townsend,  1910 
Edward  Howard  Townsend,  1912 
Sheaf e  Walker,   1914 

Cameron  Beach  Waterman,   1901,   1904  L. 
Ira  Davenport  Waterman,   1907 
Henry   Parmelee   Wickes,    1900 
Ernest  Russell  Willson,   1906  S. 
*Lispenard  Stewart  Witherbee,   1907 
Louis  Bradstreet  Zacher,  1910  Total,  34. 


270  STATISTICAL  SUMMARIES 


Occupations 

Art: — Coffin         .........  1 

Education: — Benton,  Blodgett,  Bouchet,  *Curtis,  Farnam,  Fox, 
Frissell,  *Grover,  Kennedy,  Kennett,  Leal,  Leighton,  Mor- 
ris, Peck,  *Ragan,  (Spaulding),  A.  E.  Stone,  Wallace  17 

Engineering: — Hartwell,  Kelly  .....  2 

Farming: — Baldwin,  Beaver,  G.  V.  Bushnell,  F.  W.  Foster,  Hol- 
brook,  Lyon,  VanHorn,  Waterman,  Wells      ...  9 

Finance: — Brady,  (Cuyler),  *Dewing,  Dimock,  Fell,  Hatch, 
Howe,  Ingersoll,  Leland,  Nevin,  *Patten,  Stearns,  Stokes, 
^Williams 13 

Journalism  and  Letters: — *Bininger,  *Moseley,  Starkweather  3 

Law: — Aldis,  Barnes,  *J.  U.  Brown,  Bussing,  Butler,  *Chitten- 
den,  Cline,  Cuyler,  *Dickerman,  *Evans,  *W.  Foster,  Gunn, 
Henderson,  Heron,  ^Humphrey,  *Ives,  James,  Joy,  Latimer, 
*Marsh,  *Melick,  Minor,  *01msted,  Parkin,  (*Patten), 
Piatt,  (*Ragan),  E.  D.  Robbins,  H.  S.  Robbins,  Sayles, 
*Sayre,  Sellers,  Sherman,  *Stapler,  (Starkweather),  Stim- 
son,  G.  W.  Stone,  Swan,  Tenney,  Thacher,  Townsend, 
Walden,  *Weed,  Weekes,  *Whiting,  Wickes,  Wilcox,  Wood, 
Zacher  .........  46 

Manufacturing: — Adams,  G.  S.  Brown,  Kelley,  Rouse,  Wash- 
burn,  Witherbee   ........  6 

Medicine: — Bailey,  ^Benedict,  Bowers,  Bradstreet,  Campbell, 
Halsted,  Harrison,  Munroe,  Reading,  *Swallow,  Walker, 
*Willson 12 

Mercantile  Business: — Bristol,  *Dodge,  Dunning,  Fowler, 
Jenkins,  Whittemore     .......  6 

Ministry: — *Bent,  S.  C.  Bushnell,  Hedges,  *Mendell,  Reid, 
Scudder,   Spaulding       .......  7 

Transportation: — ^Doughty       ......  1 

Unclassified: — Porter  .......  1 

Total,   124 


STATISTICAL  SUMMARIES  271 


Distribution  of  Living  Graduates 

California: — Beaver,  G.  V.  Bushnell,  Hartwell,  Lyon,  Stearns, 

Swan,  Wickes        ........  7 

Connecticut: — Baldwin,    Bowers,    Bradstreet,    G.    S.    Brown, 
Farnam,    Fox,   Gunn,    Hedges,    Howe,    Ingersoll,    Kennedy, 

Morris,  Munroe,  Peck,  Reid,  E.  D.  Robbins,  Zacher     .  17 

Georgia: — F.  W.  Foster      .......  1 

Illinois: — Aldis,   Harrison,   Leighton,   Leland,   Reading,   H.   S. 

Robbins          .........  6 

Indiana: — Stimson       ........  1 

Kentucky: — Adams     ........  1 

Maryland: — Halsted             .......  1 

Massachusetts: — Blodgett,  S.  C.  Bushnell,  Washburn         .  3 

Michigan: — Kelly,  Rouse,  Waterman           ....  3 

Minnesota: — Benton             .......  1 

Missouri: — Bailey,  Cline,  Joy,  Kennett       ....  4 

Montana: — Wells        .          .          .          .          .         .         .          .  1 

New  Hampshire: — Walker           ......  1 

New  Jersey: — Campbell,  Leal,  Scudder      .          .          .          .  3 

New  York: — Barnes,  Brady,  Bristol,  Bussing,  Dimock,  Dun- 
ning, Fowler,  Hatch,  James,  Jenkins,  Kelley,  Minor,  Munroe, 
Parkin,  Porter,  Sayles,  Sherman,  Spaulding,  Starkweather, 
Stokes,  A.  E.  Stone,  Tenney,  Thacher,  Townsend,  Van- 
Horn,     Walden,     Wallace,     Weekes,     Whittemore,     Wilcox, 

Witherbee,  Wood 32 

Ohio: — Bouchet,  Henderson,  Latimer,  Piatt,  G.  W.  Stone  .  5 

Oregon  : — Holbrook     ........  1 

Pennsylvania: — Coffin,  Cuyler,  Fell,  Heron,  Sellers  .          .  5 

Virginia: — Frissell       ........  1 

Wisconsin: — Butler     ........  1 

Unknown: — Nevin      ........  1 

96 


ROLL  OF  THE   CLASS 

Graduates 

Thomas   Means  Adams,  Ashland,   Ky. 

Owen  Franklin  Aldis,  Care   Aldis   &   Company,   217   Monadnock 

Building,     Chicago,     111.;      residences,     120     Bellevue     Place, 

Chicago,  111.,  and  134-7  Connecticut  Avenue,  Washington,  D.  C. 
William   Lathrop   Bailey,   Nevada,   Mo. 
Henry  Baldwin,   South  Canterbury,   Conn. 

Pearce   Barnes,    1    West   Fifty-fourth   Street,   New   York   City. 

George  Lincoln  Beaver,  661   Gilman  Street,   Palo  Alto,  Calif. 

*George  Willis   Benedict  *Died   1907. 

*Thomas  Armstrong  Bent  *Died   1876. 

Prof.      Charles     William      Benton,      University      of     Minnesota, 

Minneapolis,    Minn.;     residence,    516    Ninth    Avenue^    S.    E., 

Minneapolis,    Minn. 
*William   Burger   Bininger  *Died   1908. 

Samuel    Fairbank    Blodgett,    High    School,    South    Framingham, 

Mass. ;  residence,  A  Thurber  Street,  South  Framingham,  Mass. 
Edward  Alexander  Bouchet,  residence,  837  Third  Avenue,  Galli- 

polis,    Ohio;     permanent    address,    94    Bradley    Street,    New 

Haven,  Conn. 
Dr.     William     Cutler     Bowers,     336     State     Street,     Bridgeport, 

Conn. 
Dr.    Edward   Thomas    Bradstreet,    170    Colony    Street,    Meriden, 

Conn. 
Hon.    John    Green    Brady,    530    West    122d    Street,    New    York 

City. 
Henry    Dayton   Bristol,    123    East   Twenty-seventh    Street,    New 

York  City. 
George  Selah  Brown,  50  Cedar  Street,  New  Britain,  Conn. 
*  Joseph  Unangst  Brown  *Died  1899. 

George    Vanderburgh    Bushnell,    Monrovia,    Calif. 
Rev.  Samuel  Clarke  Bushnell,  11  Maple  Street,  Arlington,  Mass. 
Robert     Speir     Bussing,     26     Court    Street,     Brooklyn,     N.     Y.; 

residence,  20  Garden  Place,  Brooklyn,   N.  Y. 


ROLL  OF  THE  CLASS  273 

John  Ammi  Butler,  Wells  Building,  Milwaukee,  Wis. ;    residence, 

Crooked-Lake-Farm,  Oconomowoc,  Wis. 
Dr.  Wellington  Campbell,  Short  Hills,   N.   J. 
^Horace  Hatch  Chittenden  *Died   1909. 

Frederick    Addison    Cline,    Security    Building,    St.    Louis,    Mo. ; 

residence,   4321    Olive   Street,   St.   Louis,   Mo. 
William  Anderson  Coffin,  Lotus  Club,  New  York  City,  and  Box 
3,   Jennerstown,   Pa. 
*Edward  Lewis   Curtis  *Died  1911. 

Thomas    DeWitt    Cuyler,    Arcade    Building,    Philadelphia,    Pa.; 
residence,   Haverford,    Pa. 
*Clark  Dewing  *Died   1895. 

*George  Lewis   Dickerman  *Died   1909. 

George     Edward     Dimock,     2     Wall     Street,     New    York     City; 
residence,  907   North  Broad  Street,  Elizabeth,  N.   J. 
*Arthur  Murray  Dodge  *Died   1896. 

*George  Fingland  Doughty  *Died  1882. 

Jacob  Abramse   Robertson   Dunning,    141    Broadway,   New   York 
City;    residence,  97  Heywood  Avenue,  Orange,   N.  J. 
*Thomas  Grier  Evans  *Died   1905. 

Prof.  Henry  Walcott  Farnam,  43  Hillhouse  Avenue,  New  Haven, 

Conn. 
Walter  Penrose  Fell,  Care  Fell  &  Nicholson,  Land  Title  Building, 

Philadelphia,   Pa.;    residence,  Riverton,   N.   J. 
Frank   Wade    Foster,    Buckhead,   Ga. 
*William  Foster  *Died   1898. 

Herbert  Greene  Fowler,  1  West  Thirty-fourth  Street,  New  York 

City. 
George  Levi  Fox,  7  College  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Rev.  Hollis  Burke  Frissell,  Hampton,  Va. 
*Thomas  Williams  Grover  *Died   1893. 

Hon.  George  Miles  Gunn,  179  Church  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn.; 

residence,   Milford,   Conn. 
Prof.  William  Stewart  Halsted,  1201  Eutaw  Place,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Dr.  Wallace   Kasson   Harrison,   1604   Masonic   Temple,   Chicago, 

111.;    residence,   1244   North  State  Street,  Chicago,   111. 
Charles     Sidney     Hartwell,     Care     the     Oil    &     Metals     Leasing 
Company,   Banning,   Calif. 


274  ROLL  OF  THE  CLASS 

Henry  Prescott  Hatch,  71  Broadway,  New  York  City;    residence, 

124   Remsen  Street,  Brooklyn,   N.   Y. 
Rev.  William  Hedges,  Care  Samuel  O.  Hedges,  Bridge  Hampton, 

Long  Island,  N.  Y. ;    residence,  Colebrook,  Conn. 
William    Olin    Henderson,    613-618    New    First    National    Bank 

Building,  Columbus,  Ohio;    residence,  50  South  Third  Street, 

Columbus,  Ohio. 
John  Brown  Heron,  Jr.,  South  Linden  Avenue,  Pittsburgh,   Pa. 
DeWitt  Clinton  Holbrook,  R.  F.  D.  1,  Freewater,  Ore. 
Daniel   Robinson   Howe,   Box   708,   Hartford,   Conn.;     residence, 

1008  Asylum  Street,  Hartford,  Conn. 
*Charles  Edward  Humphrey  *Died  1881. 

Francis   Gregory  Ingersoll,   East   Haddam,  Conn. 
*Charles  Ives  *Died  1883. 

Henry     Ammon     James,     30     Broad     Street,     New     York     City; 

residence,  20  West  Twelfth  Street,   New  York  City. 
Frank   Jenkins,    1    Broadway,    New    York   City;     residence,   The 

Ansonia,    Seventv-fourth    Street    and    Broadwav,    New    York 

City. 
Hon.    Charles    Frederick   Joy,    126    City    Hall,    St.   Louis,    Mo.; 

residence,  4954  Lindell  Boulevard,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Robert    Weekes    Kelley,    26    Beaver    Street,    New    York    City; 

residence,  1  West  Fifty-fourth  Street,  New  York  City. 
William  Kelly,  Vulcan,  Mich. 

David  Andrew  Kennedy,  245  Dwight  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Alfred  Quinton  Kennett,  5099  Waterman  Avenue,  St.  Louis,  Mo. ; 

mail  address,  Care  Brown,  Shipley  &  Company,  123  Pall  Mall, 

London,  England. 
Everton  Judson  Latimer,  6907   Euclid  Avenue,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 
John  Leal,  949   Central  Avenue,   Plainfield,   N.   J. 
Theodore    Frelinghuysen    Leighton,    Hyde    Park    High    School, 

Chicago,   111.;    residence,  3716  Lake  Avenue,  Chicago,   111. 
Lorenzo  Leland,   Care  First   National  Bank,  Ottawa,   111. 
Eldridge  Merick  Lyon,  25   Summit  Avenue,  Redlands,  Calif. 
*  Valentine   Marsh  *Died  1902. 

*Leoni  Melick  *Died  1908. 

*Ellis  Mendell  *Died   1903. 

Hon.    Charles    William    Minor,    104    West    Forty-second    Street, 

New   York   City;     residence,  249   West   Seventy-sixth   Street, 

New  York  City. 


ROLL  OF  THE  CLASS  275 

Prof.   Edward   Parmelee   Morris,   Yale   University,   New    Haven, 

Conn.;     residence,   53    Edgehill   Road,   New   Haven,   Conn. 
^Gilbert  Gates  Moseley  *Died   1908. 

Dr.   George  Edmund  Munroe,   126   Madison  Avenue,   New   York 

City. 
Alexander  Brown  Nevin 
*Francis   Howard  Olmsted  *Died   1886. 

William  Parkin,  Room  135  Post  Office  Building,  New  York  City; 

residence,  49  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 
*Franklin  Wells  Patten  *Died  1890. 

John   Wesley  Peck,   23    Elizabeth   Street,   Derby,   Conn. 
Rutherford    Hayes    Piatt,    13!/2    East    State    Street,    Columbus, 

Ohio;    residence,  414   East  Broad  Street,   Columbus,  Ohio. 
Hon.   Peter  Augustus   Porter,   Niagara  Falls,   N.  Y. 
*Henry  Harger  Ragan  *Died   1895. 

Prof.  Edgar  Mead  Reading,  6416  Monroe  Avenue,  Chicago,  111. 
Rev.  George  Darius  Reid,  510  Howe  Avenue,  Shelton,  Conn. 
Hon.  Edward  Denmore  Robbins,  Care  New  York,  New  Haven  & 

Hartford  Railway  Company,  New  Haven,  Conn.;    residence, 

408   St.   Ronan  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Henry    Spencer    Robbins,    Home    Insurance    Building,    Chicago, 

111. ;    residence,   (summer)   Lake  Forest,  111. 
Edwin  Forrest  Rouse,  Omer,  Mich.;    residence,  1222  Broadway, 

Bay  City,  Mich. 
Whipple  Owen  Sayles,  P.  O.  Box  1717,  and  27  William  Street, 

New   York  City;    residence,  East  Orange,   N.   J. 
*Moses  Mcllvain  Sayre  *Died  1901. 

Rev.  John  Lewis  Scudder,  117  Bentley  Avenue,  Jersey  City,  N.  J. 
James  Cadwalader  Sellers,  407  Franklin  Building,  Philadelphia, 

Pa.;    residence,  14  West  Chestnut  Street,  West  Chester,  Pa. 
Thomas   Townsend   Sherman,   60   Wall   Street,   New   York   City; 

residence,  Rye,  Westchester   County,   N.  Y. 
Rev.   Wayland   Spaulding,   Gerard  Apartments,   527   Wrest    121st 

Street,    New    York   City. 
*Henry  Beidelman  Bascom  Stapler  *Died   1906. 

Chauncey  Clark  Starkweather,  Care  Yale  Club,  30  West  Forty- 
fourth  Street,  New  York  City. 
George  Milton  Stearns,  Palace  Hotel,  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 


276  ROLL  OF  THE  CLASS 

Robert  Brown  Stimson,   1003   South  Third  Street,  Terre  Haute, 

Ind. 
William     Earl     Dodge     Stokes,     The     Ansonia,     Broadway     and 

Seventy-third  Street,  New  York  City. 
Ambrose  Everett  Stone,  316  West  Fifty-sixth  Street,  New  York 

City;    permanent  address,  Goshen,  Mass. 
George   Woodward   Stone,    122   West   Fourth   Street,    Cincinnati, 

Ohio;    residence,  Hosea  and  Oxford  Terrace,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
*Edward  Emerson  Swallow  *Died   1887. 

Charles   Lasselle   Swan,   Santa   Barbara,   Calif. 
Levi    Sanderson    Tenney,    27    William    Street,    New    York    City; 

residence,  66  Plymouth  Street,  Montclair,  N.   J. 
Alfred   Beaumont   Thacher,    62    Cedar    Street,    New   York   City; 

residence,  486   Scotland   Road,   South  Orange,  N.   J. 
James    Mulford    Townsend,     165    Broadway,    New    York    City; 

residence,  535   Park  Avenue,  New  York  City. 
Burt  VanHorn,  The  Dakota,  1  West  Seventy-second  Street,  New 

York   City,   and   Niagara    Falls,    N.    Y. 
Russell   Walden,   80   Broadway,   New   York   City;     residence,   40 

Cambridge   Place,  Brooklyn,   N.   Y. 
Dr.   Charles   Rumford  Walker,   18   Park  Street,  Concord,   N.   H. 
Cornelius    Royal   Wallace,   Tuckahoe,    N.    Y. 
William  Nelson  Washburn,  Erving,  Mass. ;    residence,  3  Franklin 

Street,   Greenfield,    Mass. 
Cameron   Davenport  Waterman,   125   Lafayette  Avenue,  Detroit, 

Mich. 
*Harvey  Weed  ■  *Died   1892. 

Henry   deForest   Weekes,    111    Fifth   Avenue,    New    York   City; 

residence,  Oyster  Bay,  Nassau  County,  N.  Y. 
Ralph  Wells,  Craig,  Mont. 
*John  Bowen  Whiting  *Died  1895. 

Arthur  Dexter  Whittemore,   10  Howard  Avenue,  Utica,  N.  Y. 
Thomas  Parmelee  Wickes,  68  Post  Street,  San  Francisco,  Calif.; 

permanent  address,  care  H.  D.  Newhouse,  Kohl  Building,  San 

Francisco,  Calif. 
Ansley  Wilcox,  684   Ellicott  Square,  Buffalo,   N.   Y. ;    residence, 

641   Delaware  Avenue,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
*Roderic  Williams  *Died   1911. 


ROLL  OF  THE  CLASS  277 

*Jared  Wilson  *Died   1889. 

Frank    Spencer   Witherbee,    2    Rector    Street,    New    York    City; 

residence,    Port    Henry,    N.    Y.,    and    4>    Fifth   Avenue,    New 

York  City. 

John  Seymour  Wood,  20  Broad  Street,  New  York  City;   residence, 

131   East  Nineteenth  Street,  New  York  City. 
Hon.    Edmund    Zacher,    219    Exchange    Building,    New    Haven, 
Conn. ;    residence,  Branford,  Conn. 

Total  graduates,   124. 
Living,  95. 

Deceased,     29. 


Non-Graduates 

Included  in  this  Record 

Edward   Williamson   Andrews,    Seattle,   Wash.;     residence,    1206 

University  Street,  Seattle,  Wash. 
William  Porter  Beardsley,   102   South  Street,  Auburn,  N.  Y. 
Samuel    Shepard    Dennis,    766   and   768    Broad    Street,    Newark, 

N.  J.;    residence,  Miller  Road,  Morristown,  N.   J. 
Charles  Joseph  Harris,  Dillsboro,  N.  C. 
Thomas  Rochester  Shepard,  Valdez,  Alaska. 


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